Alice Bradbridge

Alice Barnham and her sons Martin and Steven (c.1557) by an unknown artist.

Alice Barnham (née Bradbridge) (1523-1604) was an English silk merchant, and a leading figure in the London silk trade from the 1560s onward.[1] She is chiefly remembered for commissioning a family portrait in 1557 which is one of the earliest family portraits of English origins.

  1. ^ Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney, A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen