The room displaying images of these first actresses in fact shows two portraits of Nell Gwynne by Simon Verelst, one rather conventional one (pictured right, Nell Gwynne, c 1680, by Simon Verelst, ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Thomas Murray’s total sales are going up, and if so ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Nicholas Dixon’s total sales are going up, and if ...

The portrait has been in private hands since the 1940s, and was only recently identified as Nell Gwyn. Some prudish Victorian had painted over her more striking features, now newly revealed by the ...

Nell Gwynne certainly knew how to live life to the full, packing a career as an orange seller, an actress and a royal mistress into her 37 years. Hereford has ...

As Hilary A. Hallett writes in her new biography, “The It Girl,” Nell Glyn would forge a long, lucrative career out of this raw material: the glamour and scandal of the upper classes, and ...

Charles II born 29/5 1630. Nell Gwynne born 2/2 1650. Began selling oranges outside Drury Lane Theatre, Royal Playhouse opened 1663 and at about the age of fourteen became actress. In 1664 Nell ...