Nine 400-year-old life-size paintings have been unwrapped at a Bath museum ahead of a new exhibition.
One of the most important groups of Jacobean portraits in the country forms the centrepiece of the Painted Pomp exhibition at the Holburne.
Nine full-length portraits by William Larkin, painted around 1613 to 1618, will be displayed alongside rare costumes from the period.
The aim is to reveal the heights of the art and fashion of the first half of the Shakespearean era.
It runs from Saturday until May 6.
The portraits depict members of the extended family, of Thomas Howard, the first Earl of Suffolk. They may have been painted to mark a marriage between the Cecil and Howard families during an unsettled period of intrigue and social change.
The museum says: "Behind the finery on display stands a cast of ruthless characters jostling for power and position in the court of James I."
