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A sumptuous collection of Elizabethan portraits.

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Much of the Elizabeth & her people exhibition was concerned with royalty & the upper classes. There was some focus on trade and John Gresham who developed the Royal Exchange on a model of the Bourse in Antwerp.

Interesting when viewed alongside the Cheapside hoard. The hoard has made me look more closely at Elizabethan jewellery & I now appreciate how much an individual would have worn.