About the Author

Desmond Shawe-Taylor was Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery and is now Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures. His publications include The Georgians: Eighteenth-Century Portraiture and Society (1990); and contributions to Rembrandt to Gainsborough; Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery (1999) and Shakespeare in Art (2003). Jennifer Scott, Assistant to the Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, worked at National Museums Liverpool and the National Gallery and joined the Royal Collection in 2004. She lectures regularly on paintings in the Royal Collection.