Roy Strong

Historian, broadcaster and former director of the National Portrait Gallery Sir Roy Strong casts a fresh eye on the Elizabethan image in this illustrated talk.

Strong is a leading authority on Elizabethan portraiture and was behind a seminal exhibition, The Elizabethan Image, at the Tate 50 years ago. Strong says the Elizabethan age was one of the most fascinating periods of British art. It reveals an age similar in many ways to our own, with a country aspiring professionally and changing socially. Strong explains how the images were not necessarily meant for public consumption and offered a glimpse into private worlds.

Strong is a historian, writer and broadcaster. He was director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1967 until 1973 and of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1974 until 1984.