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Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke was among the first Englishwomen to gain notice for her poetry and her literary patronage. By the age of 39, she was listed with her brother Philip Sidney and with E
Portrait of Mary Herbert (née Sidney), by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1590.
The title page of Sidney's The Tragedy of Antony, her interpretation of the story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
First page of As You Like It from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays; the first performance of the play may have been at Mary Sidney's house at Wilton
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Montgomery, was an English courtier, nobleman, and politician active during the reigns of James I and Charles I. He married Susan de Vere, the youn
Mary Sidney
…Anne Herbert (born 1583 – after 1603) was thought also to have been a writer and a storyteller. Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (1584–1650), succeeded his brother in 1630. Philip and his older brother William were the "incomparable pair of brethren" to whom the First Folio of…
Portrait by Anthony van Dyck
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, in the robes of the Order of the Garter c. 1615. Unknown artist, National Portrait Gallery, London.
The Pembroke family – Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, seated with his second wife Lady Anne Clifford (in black), surrounded by his family. He holds the white staff of his office of Lord Chamberlain and reaches forward to Lady Mary Villers (in white), the daughter of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, gesturing towards the heart of the young woman who is about to marry his son, Charles Lord Herbert (in scarlet) aside Philip Herbert (in orange). At the left the three young Herbert boys, William,
A 1642 engraving of Pembroke by Wenceslas Hollar after a 1634 painting of Anthony van Dyck