Alice Bradbridge

[a] Francis Barnham owned a house on St Clement's Lane, Eastcheap that been the London residence of the Abbot of Stratford Langthorne.

To circumvent this rule Alice ran the retail branch of the family business and was considered to be a professional silkwoman.

[2] Francis Barnham died in 1576 aged sixty and was buried on 23 May at the parish church of St Clement Eastcheap.

Prior to its purchase in 1998 it hung in Boughton Monchelsea Place, a Kent country house inherited by Sir Francis Barnham in 1613.

It has now been relabelled Alice Barnham and her Sons Martin and Steven (1557), because of information contained within trompe-l'œil inscriptions on the painting.

[2] Of their four sons the third Anthony, probably died soon after his baptism on 18 March 1558, the youngest of the four Benedict (baptised 1559), was a very successful London merchant who amassed one of the great city fortunes of the period,[2] his eldest daughter Elizabeth married Lord Audley the future 2nd Earl of Castlehaven.