Dr Elizabeth Goldring is a leading expert on Tudor art and Tudor court culture. An Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, she is a Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society.
Elizabeth’s most recent book, Holbein: Renaissance Master, was published in the UK in November 2025 by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art/Yale University Press. The Guardian hailed it as ‘magnificent’, the Literary Review as ‘superb and ground-breaking’. Holbein: Renaissance Master was selected by Radio 4’s Front Row as a ‘Cultural Pick of the Week’ (11 December 2025) and by The Times, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, New Statesman, Country Life, Tablet, New World, Church Times, and Engelsberg Ideas as a ‘Book of the Year’ for 2025. Elizabeth’s other books include Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist (PMC/Yale, 2019), which won the Apollo Prize for ‘Art Book of the Year’ and was shortlisted for three other major awards: the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, the William M. B. Berger Prize for British Art, and the Richard Schlagman Prize for Best Contribution to Art History.
Elizabeth has been interviewed about her research on Tudor art for numerous radio programmes, including The Today Programme, Start the Week, and Moving Pictures (all Radio 4); for several television programmes, including Stories from the National Portrait Gallery (Sky Arts), Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC1), Lucy Worsley’s Fireworks for a Tudor Queen (BBC4), and Digging Up Britain’s Past (Channel 5); and for feature articles in a wide range of print publications, including BBC History Magazine, Country Life, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, and The Times.
She regularly reviews books and exhibitions for publications such as the Spectator, Literary Review, and Times Literary Supplement. In addition, Elizabeth contributes long-form pieces on art to the London Review of Books.
As a public speaker, Elizabeth is in demand in the UK and abroad. In recent years, she has delivered invited public lectures and ‘in conversations’ events on Tudor art to large audiences at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Frick Collection, New York; the National Gallery, London; and the National Portrait Gallery, London; among other venues.
Born and raised in the United States, Elizabeth has lived in London for the past thirty years.