DIPPING INTO INKWELLS

FACES OF COMMON FOLKS

The 19th-Century’s rising merchant class aspired to preserve their faces in paintings and along the way created a new genre, the folk-art portrait.

STEPPING BACK INTO ELIZABETHAN TIMES

One-quarter of the Godspeed’s passengers were landed gentry who left behind country houses with beautiful gardens like Richmond’s Tudor-period Agecroft Hall.