Elizabeth Henry
The Woman Behind the Collection
Elizabeth’s love of natural finery began long before she can remember. Born to a jeweler, Elizabeth’s father taught her everything there was to know about wearable art and the mastery of design and technique. As a young child, Elizabeth would take naps on the floor of her family jewelry store. In time, she designed her own lapis and cloisonne beaded necklaces that her father would sell in the shop. She was enamored by the collision of the natural world and the artist’s brain at work. She perceived it immediately: like each of us, each piece has a story.
Elizabeth was born and raised along the rocky coast of New Hampshire—just minutes from Elizabeth Henry Collection’s Portsmouth storefront. She spent her childhood summers on Cape Cod, attended university in the Lakes and Mountains region of Maine, and has now settled on the North Shore of Massachusetts with her family. She is, therefore, just as much ‘at home’ in New England as she is in a jewelry store.
In her own home, just as in her profession, she seeks to cultivate all that is true, good, and beautiful. She is a dedicated mother to four adventurous young children and when she has a spare moment, you can find her toiling in her temperamental vegetable garden, painting landscapes from the window of her attic, and finding the next hiking trail or secret swimming hole with her children.
While wearable art has been her métier, compelled also by a love of words, Elizabeth formally studied English literature. Subsequently, her foremost love of jewelry launched her across the nation to study at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in southern California, where she received the industry’s most prestigious credential, that of the Graduate Gemologist. Ever since, she has established her family’s brand and legacy, working with gemstones, precious metals, and their uniquely beautiful wearers.
Today, she serves as a Partner at Market Square Jewelers. After fifteen years in estate and antique jewelry, building a successful six-store family chain, Elizabeth is now writing her own story. Equipped with her artistic aptitude, breadth of historical expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and penchant for story-telling, it is her eager hope that this one will help other courageous women tell theirs.
