User:ErinBlake/Early Modern British Painters (Sample)

Introductory text would go here, e.g. something like:The EMBP database identifies all those men and women who have been identified as painters of any sort working in England, Wales, Scotland, or Ireland between the years 1500 and 1640. Its current total of 2,504 entries includes a few pre-1500 references where activity following that date may reasonably be assumed, and a few post-1640 references where activity prior to that date may just as reasonably be assumed. It includes those who were native to the British Isles and also those aliens who came and worked there at any time during this era. Finally, it includes those to whom contemporary occupational descriptions refer as pursuing any specialty within the general category of "painter." These include, e.g., "limner," "picture-painter," "glass-painter," "herald painter," "manuscript illuminator."

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EMBP data

The sample data, below, includes entries under "A" and "B" provided by Robert Tittler on January 13, 2015.

Surname: A.
Forename: W.
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1536
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive Painter files, vide "A. W."
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Raewyn Passmore


Surname: Abbes
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1584-5
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Abbes was employed in the Revels, 1584/5
Selected sources: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), p. 366.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Abbott
Forename: [unknown]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: [unknown]
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: 16th c.
Work dates: 16th c.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Courtauld Institute, Witt Library painters" files, vide "Abbot".
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Raewyn Passmore


Surname: Abbott
Forename: John I
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Devon: Frithelstock
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates:
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: 1565-1635
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Abbott was the first in a long line of painters and plasterers living in Frithelstock, Devon
Selected sources: James Ayres, Art, Artisans & Apprentices, Apprentice Painters & Sculptors in the Early Modern British Tradition (Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014) , p. 46.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Abell
Forename: Edward
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1625
Master of: Anthony Shippye, prior to 1625.
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Abell was listed as a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, in 1625. A complaint was issued against him for a poorly painted sign, 1634.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/14.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Abworth, see Aleworth


Surname: Acreman, Akreman, Arkeman
Forename: Philip , Philippe
Origin: .
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: c. 1530-3
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Carried out decorative work at Hampton Court, Whitehall and Westminster Palaces.
Biographical notes: Acreman assisted Anthony Toto in 1530; decorative painter.
Selected sources: Ellis Waterhouse, ed., The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters (3rd ed., Woodbridge, 1988), p. 11; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 151; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 19, 53, 163.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Adam
Forename: Jan de
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Alien: Flemish
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: tempus Charles I
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Stefanie Kollmann, Niederlandische Kunstler und Kunst im London des 17. Jahrhunderts, (Hildesheim, Zurich; New York, 2000), 145; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) pp. 1-236.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Adams
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Shropshire: Ludlow
Occuptational description: arms painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1590
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted pedigree roll of John Watkins, Dean of Hereford, 1590
Biographical notes: A "paynter of Ludlow", Adams was a herald painter who did the heraldic painting on pedigree rolls written by the herald Thomas Jones.
Selected sources: Arthur Kinney and David W. Swain, eds., Tudor England, an Encyclopedia (New York and London 2001), p. 523; Kathryn Davies, Artisan Art: Vernacular Wall Paintings in the Welsh Marches (Almeley, Hereford, 2008) p. 67; Michael Powell Siddons, Welsh Pedigree Rolls (Aberystwyth, 1996), pp. 7, 11, 21, and 41.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Adams
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: Royal Exchange
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1606
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Thomas held a shop in 1606 on the west side of the Royal Exchange
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 26.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Adamson
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1551
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Work on Royal Banqueting House, 1551
Biographical notes: Employed in the Royal Works, 1551.
Selected sources: Roy Strong, "More Tudor Artists", Burlington Magazine, 108 (1966) pp. 83-85, repr. in Strong, The Tudor and Stuart Monarchy, Pageantry, Painting, Iconography (3 vols., Woodbridge, 1995) I, p. 148.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Addams
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates:
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Addams was a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London. A complaint was made against him for a poorly painted sign, 1634.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/14.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Adrianson, Awdrianson, Adriaensen, Adrian
Forename: Leonard, Lenard
Origin: Alien: Dutch: Brabant
Place of work/residence: England in 1556 ff.; London: St. Martin le Grande, 1568; St. Botolph"s Aldgate, 1571; Southwark, 1583.
Occuptational description: printer, painter and stationer
Life dates: b. c. 1536
Work dates: In London c. 1556-post- 1583
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Adrianson came to England by 1556, was admitted to the Stationers Company of London, 1563/4, testified in a court case in 1564; received a patent of denization in May, 1568, and was recorded in 1568 as attending an English parish church at that time. He was referred to as a printer as well as a painter, and seems to have illuminated printed works.
Selected sources: R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, eds., Return of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908). II, p. 51 and III, 436; William Page, ed., Letters of Denization and Acts of Naturalization for Aliens in England (Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, VIII, 1893), p. 2; Hope Walker, "Netherlandish Painters in Tudor London, 1560-1580", (unpublished MPhil thesis, Courtauld Institute, 2014, cited with kind permission of the author), Appendix 3, vide Adrianson; Peter W.M. Blayney, The Stationers" Company and the Printers of London, 1501-1557 (2 vols., Cambridge, 2013), p. 792.
Researched by: Hope Walker, Robert Tittler


Surname: Adye
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1531
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Adye was employed in the Royal Works, 1531
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 150; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), pp. 153, 163.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Agar
Forename: James
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: limner", "picture drawer"
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1641
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Mary Edmond, ""Limners and Picturemakers", New Light on the Lives of Miniaturists and Large-scale Portrait Painters working in London in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", Walpole Society 47 (1978-80) p. 154; Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters (3rd ed., Woodbridge, 1988), p. 11.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Aggas, Agas
Forename: Samuel
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Andrews Holborn and St. Giles Cripplegate (in 1626, 1628, and 1629) .
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1668/9
Work dates: fl. c. 1617-1660s
Master of: Aggas had two unnamed apprentices in 1633. His son Robert apprenticed with him from about 1639, completing that apprenticeship in 1646.
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Aggas was a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London from 1635. His son Edward was baptised, 1626, Mark in 1628, both at St. Giles Cripplegate. A complaint was lodged against him for shoddy work, 1635.
Selected sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Aggas, Robert; Mary Edmond, ""Limners and Picturemakers", New Light on the Lives of Miniaturists and Large-scale Portrait Painters working in London in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", Walpole Society 47 (1978-80) p. 154, 183; Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters (3rd ed., Woodbridge, 1988), p. 11; Alan Borg, The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 55; London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS005667/001/93 ; London Metropolitan Archives MS. P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/002, (unpaginated; see by date) .
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler, Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Aggas
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, 1623
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1623
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Daughter Elizabeth baptised, 1623, St. Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/002, (unpaginated; see by date).
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Ainn
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1624
Master of: Robert Marshall prior to 1624
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/5.
Researched by: Michael Berlin


Surname: Alaene
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Warwickshire: Coventry
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1522
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited in a muster roll, 1522.
Selected sources: Mary H.M. Hulton, Coventry and its People in the 1520s(Dugdale Society 38, 1999), p. 80.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Albon
Forename: Henry
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Norfolk: Norwich
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: Cited 1576 and 1611.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Albon was admitted freeman of Norwich by patrimony, 1576; he apprenticed his son to a London blacksmith, 1611.
Selected sources: Percy Millican, ed., The Register of the Freemen of Norwich, 1548-1713 (Norwich, 1934), p. 107; Cliff Webb, ed., London Livery Company Apprenticeship Registers, vol. 41, Blacksmiths Company (2004), p. 2.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Alcock
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Leicestershire: Loughborough
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1527
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Alcock was cited with Humphrey Blower (q.v.) in an action for trespass, Court of Common Pleas, 1527.
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/1055/15f.
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Aleworth, Abworth, Alerath, Allworth
Forename: Vincent
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, 1623, 1626, 1628, 1630, 1635
Occuptational description: painter, painter-stainer
Life dates: d. 1665
Work dates: fl. from 1623, d. 1664/5.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Alewroth is identified as a painter in the baptismal records of his children: Thomas (1623), William (1626), Richard (1628), and Vincent (1630), Elizabeth (1635) and Grace; all at St. Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MSS.P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/002 and P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/003, both see by date.
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Allaway
Forename: Abraham
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Warwickshire: Stratford-u-Avon
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: b. 1574-d., Sept., 1624
Work dates:
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Abraham was the son of John Allaway. Wife Ann also d. 1624. One son, Thomas, b. 1605.
Selected sources: J. Jones, Stratford-Upon Avon Inventories, (Dugdale Society, 2002), vol. I, pp. 330-1; Shakespeare Birthplace Trust MS. BRT 3/1/5.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Alleis
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1531
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Alleis was employed in the Royal Works at Westminster Palace, 1531.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 150.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Allen
Forename: [unknown]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Shropshire: Ludlow
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1582/3
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted pillars in St. Lawrence, Ludlow, 1582/3
Biographical notes: Allen painted pillars in St. Lawrence, Ludlow, 1582/3; may be the same as "Alyan" (q.v.) , who also did painting in the same church in 1555.
Selected sources: Thomas Wright, ed., Churchwardens" Accounts of the Town of Ludlow (Camden Society,102, 1869), p. 166.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Allen
Forename: Daniel
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: Duke"s Place
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1617-1624
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Allen was identified as an unlicensed painter when his apprentice, John Smith (q.v.), was initially refused membership in the Painter-Stainers" Company of London because of his master Allen"s unlicensed status. Alen seems to have completed the statutory seven years under Allen, which verifies Allen"s activity between 1617 and 1624. As Smith had been resident at Christ"s Hospital, Allen may have been a painting master at that institution.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 168.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Allen, Allin, Allyn
Forename: John
Origin: Northamptonshire: Gretton
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer, arms painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited pre 1634-post 1649
Master of: Richard Perratt, prior to 1640
Apprentices & journeymen: Mr [Henry?] Lilly
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Allen was a member of the Painter-Stainers" Company of London, to which he was admitted by apprenticeship to Henry Lilly (q.v.) in 1625/6. His work is recorded at Charterhouse in 1626, and he seems to have had his own workshop by that time in St Botolph"s without Aldgate. Allen was one of the plaintiffs in a suit, 1634-37, against the Painter-Stainers brought in the Court of Chivalry regarding the right of Painter-Stainers to engage in heraldic painting withut permission of the College of Arms. Allen had done such painting in 1633, and in February, 1637/8, he replaced his former master Lilly as one of those Painter-Stainers licenced by the College to paint arms for funerals and other occasions.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/17 and 001/152; Alan Borg, The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005) , p. 210; Richard Cust and Andrew Hopper, eds., "Court of Chivalry" web site: www.court-of-chivalry.bham.ac.uk , no. 348, King of Arms v. Painters and Stainers; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 27; The College of Arms, "Painters" Workbook 001", and MS. I 3, Chapter Book, passim.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Allen
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cheshire: Chester
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. post-1600
Work dates: c. 1573-post 1600
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers, Glaziers, Embroiderers, and Stationers" Company of Chester, 1573, and was still taking on journeyman (e.g., William Gostilowe) in 1600.
Selected sources: Chester Record Office, MS. ZG 17/1 (unpaginated; see by date).
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Allen
Forename: Luke
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate at d., 1593
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. 1593
Work dates: fl. 1582/3-d. 1593
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Allen was identified as a painter in the burial record of himself, his daughter Sarah and servants Phoebe Smith and Margaret Allen, all in August, 1593, at St Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 27
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Allen
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury: Burgate Ward
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1582/3-1598
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Allen was bound by sureties in a local court in 1598. He may have been the Richard Allen who was son-in-law of John Wisdome, London painter-stainer (d. 1574).
Selected sources: Kent Study Centre MSS. Q/M/RLv/45 and Q/M/SRc/1597/61; Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury, Kent, MSS., CC/Fa19 42r., 83r, 172r.; The National Archives PROB 11/56/525; J.M. Cowper, ed., Intrantes; A List of Persons Admitted to Live and Trade within the City of Canterbury,1392-1592 (Canterbury, 1904), cols. 228-233.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Allen
Forename: "Goodman" William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Dover
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1605-6
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Kent History and Library Centre MS. FCA 4, fols., 55v, 84v, 89v.
Researched by: Helen E. Wicker, Robert Tittler


Surname: Allerton
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1633/4 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: John Brokcas
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London, 1633/4, by apprenticeship to John Brockas.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/92.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Alexander, see Alysander


Surname: Aley
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Bishop"s Stortford
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1621
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Aley served on an Assize Jury, 1621.
Selected sources: J.S. Cockburn, ed., Calendar of Assize Records, Surrey Indictments, Elizabeth I (1995), item 1059, p. 182.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Allington
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Devon: Plymouth
Occuptational description: limner
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1646
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: The National Archives, PROB 11/195/7
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Alman, Almon , see Holman


Surname: Almond, Amond
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Surrey: Southwark St. Saviours, 1601, 1602
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: cited 1601, 1602
Work dates: cited 1601, 1602
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Almond is identified as a painter in the baptismal records of his daughter Jone, 1 Nov.,1601, daughter Anne and son John, 26 Dec., 1602, all at St. Saviour"s, Southwark.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. P92/Sav/3001 at dates indicated.
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Alsoppe
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Hertfordshire: Bishop"s Stortford in 1596
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: will, 1596
Work dates: d.c. 1596
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Essex Record Office MS. D/ABW 2/121
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Alward, Alwarde
Forename: Henry
Origin: Nothamptonshire: Northampton
Place of work/residence: London: St. Foster"s, Farringdon Without, in July, 1568; and St. Christopher-le-Stocks, 1591-93.
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer and merchant
Life dates: 1531-1593
Work dates: fl. 1568-d. 28 August, 1593
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Alward was admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London c. 1563, briefly expelled in 1587 and reinstated soon thereafter. As a merchant, he had often travelled to the Netherlands, where he frequently traded, and he married a Flemish woman who returned to London with him. He served as a witness in a court case, 1591. He left numerous legacies, including one to the sons of a minister of a Dutch Church. It is doubtful, though possible, that he ever worked as a painter.
Selected sources: The National Archives, PROB 11/82/273; R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, eds., Return of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908). , II, p. 258; III, p. 342; London Consistory Court Depositions, 1591, no. 595; London Metropolitan Archives MS. DL/C/214/50; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) pp. 27-28 .
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler, Hope Walker


Surname: Alworth
Forename: Samuel
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1627/8 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Tobias Massye
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London, by apprenticeship with Tobias Massey, 1627/8.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/37.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Alyan
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Shropshire: Ludlow
Occuptational description: painter and/or stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1555
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: painted a cloth for St. Lawrence, Ludlow, 1555
Biographical notes: Painted a cloth for St. Lawrence, Ludlow, 1555. May possibly be the same as "Allen" (q.v.) who painted pillars in the same church in 1582/3.
Selected sources: Thomas Wright, ed., Churchwardens" Accounts of the Town of Ludlow (Camden Society,102, 1869), p. 63.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Alysander, Allysander, Alexander
Forename: James
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Mildenhall in 1554.
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: will 1554
Work dates: to c. 1554
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: His will (January, 1553/4) lists him as a painter, but he was paid in 1550 for mending a bible and his will indicates that he also owned cattle. Probably not the "Alysander" active in producing Mid-Summer Shows for sundry livery companies; that was undoubtedly Thomas.
Selected sources: West Suffolk Record Office MSS. R2/25/89; SROB, IC 500/1/16/119 and IC 500/2/25/89; Judith Middleton-Stewart, ed., The Records of the Churchwardens of Mildenhall; Collections (1446-1454) and Accounts (1503-1553), (Suffolk Record Society, 54 2011), p. 124, n. 337 and 175.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Andrea Kirkham


Surname: Alysander, Alysaunder, Alexander
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St Alban Wood Street in 1523, 1541, and 1556.
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: c. 1490-d. 1556
Work dates: cited 1509, 1532, 1537, 1549, d. 1556.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Alysaunder did heraldic and decorative painting, including heraldic work for the funeral of Henry VII in 1509, extensive work on the Midsummer Shows for the Goldsmith"s Company in 1523 and again in 1542/3, and for the Skinners" Company, 1534-6. He gilded and/or painted two vanes and a spindle for a new house in Cheapside, 1538/9.
Biographical notes: Thomas was a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, of which he was master in 1549, and not to be confused with his contemporary, the painter James Alysander of Mildenhall, Suffolk. He received substantial sums for making pageants for the Goldsmith"s Company"s role in the Midsummer Watch of 1523, and for making two new pageants and renovating two others for the Skinners" Company"s Midsummer Watch in 1534/36. In the latter case, he supervised several people to do the various works associated with the show. He painted two vanes and a spindle for a new house in Cheap, 1538/9.
Selected sources: Alan Borg , The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), pp. 195-96; Foister, Susan, "Foreigners at Court: Holbein, Van Dyck, and the Painter-Stainers" Company", in David Howarth, ed., Art and Patronage in the Caroline Court, Essays in Honour of Sir Oliver Millar (Cambridge, 1993), p. 43; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 150; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Jean Robertson and D.J. Gordon, eds., A Calendar of Dramatic Records in the Books of the Livery Companies of London, 1485-1640 (Malone Society Collections, III, 1954), pp. 25, 35; Vanessa Harding and Laura Wright, eds., London Bridge: Selected Accounts and Rentals, 1381-1538 (London Record Society, 1995), items 474 and 506; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) pp. 26-7
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Ambros, Ambrose
Forename: [unknown]
Origin: Alien
Place of work/residence:
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: in England 1532 only
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Painter to the Queen of Navarre. Possibly "Ambrosius Benson", who brought a painting to Henry VIII, c. 1532.
Selected sources: Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 74; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 150; Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1786, repr., 1871), p. 40
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Ambrose, Ambros
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury: Northgate Ward
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1560/61-1561-2
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: From 1560/1-1561/2 Ambrose paid an annual fee for being allowed to work and trade in Canterbury, from which it appears he was not a freeman of that City.
Selected sources: Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury, Kent, MS. CC FA-16, 134v, 175r; J.M. Cowper, ed., Intrantes; A List of Persons Admitted to Live and Trade within the City of Canterbury,1392-1592 (Canterbury, 1904), cols. 213, 215, 216.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Ameas, Amyas
Forename: Richard the elder
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St Michael le Querne
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1580-82
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Richard, probably the father of his namesake (q..v.), was a member of the Painter-Stainers" Company of London when assessed for the 1582 subsidy.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 28.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Ameas , Amyas
Forename: Richard the younger
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: 1627/8 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted by patrimony to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London, 1627/8.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/37.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Ampleforth, Ampleford
Forename: Henry
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Stephen Walbrook
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: fl. to 1606
Work dates: d. 1606
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Ampleforth left in his will a set of "prints and grynding stones", indicating that he ground his own pigments and that he either did engravings or (more likely) purchaded prints to use as models for his own work. He was well connected to other painters, having married the step-daughter of William Massey (q.v.) and daughter of Timothy Cockerel (q.v.) , and left a legacy to his brother-in-law Toby Massey (q.v.) .
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 28.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Amsell, Ancell, Auncell, Ansell
Forename: Edward
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: c. 1550 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: John Leeds/Leades
Recorded work: Work on Royal Banqueting House, 1551
Biographical notes: Amsell was admitted by apprenticeship with John Leeds/Leades to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London, 1551, and worked in the Office of the Revels.
Selected sources: Roy Strong, "More Tudor Artists", Burlington Magazine, 108 (1966) pp. 83-85, repr. in Strong, The Tudor and Stuart Monarchy, Pageantry, Painting, Iconography (3 vols., Woodbridge, 1995) I, 148; Charles Welch, ed., Register of Freemen in the City of London in the Reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI (London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 1908) 87.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Anderson
Forename: Cornelius
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury: Burgate Ward
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1527/28
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Anderson paid an annual fee for being allowed to work and trade in Canterbury, from which it appears he was not a freeman of that City.
Selected sources: J.M. Cowper, ed., Intrantes; A List of Persons Admitted to Live and Trade within the City of Canterbury,1392-1592 (Canterbury, 1904) col. 191.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Anderson
Forename: David
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland: Aberdeen
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1617-24
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters (3rd ed., Woodbridge, 1988), p. 13.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Anderson
Forename: John, Jhonn
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland: Aberdeen and Edinburgh
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1599-1649
Master of: George Jamesone, 1612 ff.
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted the Chamber of the Clerk of Aberdeen, 1599/1600; painting and gilding the clock at the Netherbow, 1611; the room where the King was born at Edinburgh Castle for L 100 in 1617; Holyroodhouse, 1633; St Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen, 1634.
Biographical notes: Anderson was one of the most prominent decorative painters working in Scotland at the time. He received £ 79 13s 4d for painting and gilding the clock at the Netherbow, Edinburgh, May 1611; repaired four paintings for the Laird of Grant, Inverness, 1634, and was asked to send them from his workshop in Aberdeen to the patron; and he did sundry painting work at Edinburgh Castle between 1617 and 1633.
Selected sources: Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters (3rd ed., Woodbridge, 1988), p. 13; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Jamesone, George; Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), pp. 23-2; National Records of Scotland, GB 234/ GD248/46/2/7, (December, 1634; John Imrie and John G. Duncan eds., The Accounts of the Masters of Works for Building and Repairing Royal Palaces and Castles, II, 1616-1649 (Edinburgh, 1982), p. 81 and 334 .
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Anderson
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland: Edinburgh
Occuptational description: glass painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1531/2
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Glass painting at Holyroodhouse, 1531/2
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), p. 24; Henry M. Paton, ed., Accounts of the Masters of the Works for Building and Repairing Royal Castles and Palaces (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1957 and 1982), I, pp. 94-95.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Anderton
Forename: Henry
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: c. 1630-1670
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Portraits of Sir Richard Brownlow and Elizabeth Freke, Lady Brownlow.
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Christopher Wright, Catherine Gordon and Mary Peskett Smith, eds., British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections (New Haven and London, 2006), p. 68.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Andrews, Andrewes
Forename: Edward, Edmund
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St Botolphe Without Aldgate 1617, 1622
Occuptational description: picturemaker
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. pre-1624-post 1631
Master of: Toby Redding, prior to 1627.
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Andrews probably worked at Clothworkers Hall in 1634/35.
Biographical notes: Andrews was cited as a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London. His apprentice Toby Redding was made free in 1627. Andrews was probably the partner of Fagan Gwynne (q.v.), who mentioned a painter of that name in his will. He was sent on several occasions by the Company to inspect work done by others, and so will have been held in high esteem by his fellow Painter-Stainers.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS005667/001/3; 001/27; et seq.; The National Archives PROB 11/151/318; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 28.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Andrews, Andrewes
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1531-33.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Decorative painter, Westminster and Whitehall Palaces.
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I, (1954), p. 153.; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 153, 163.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Andrews, Andros
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Weeley
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: will, 1566
Work dates: to 1566
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Andrews left painting "potts" and tools to his son George in his will of 1566.
Selected sources: Muriel Carrick, "Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Domestic Wall Paintings in the County of Essex", (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Essex, 3 vols., 1990), I, 235; F.G. Emmison, ed., Essex Wills, (England), II, 1565-1571 (Boston, MA., 1983) p. 156.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Anguissola
Forename: Sofonisba
Origin: Alien
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: 1532-1625
Work dates:
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Over fifty known paintings, nearly if not virtually all done on the Continent.
Biographical notes: Perhaps the most celebrated female painter of the era, Anguissola became court painter to Elizabeth of Valois and Philip of Spain, and appeared only briefly in England.
Selected sources: National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive painter files, vide Anguissola, Sofonisba; Jane Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art (34 vols.,1996), vide Anguissola .
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Raewyn Passmore


Surname: Angus
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Edinburgh
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1532-38
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Angus carried out decorative paintng at Holyroodhouse and its Chapel between 1532 and 1638.
Biographical notes: Amongst his works was the painting of gates, grates , and window frames at Holyroodhouse in 1631/2, along with Alexander Chalmer (q.v.) , for which they received twenty pounds between them. In 1535/36 he received £ 165 in five installments for extensive painting work at Holyroodhouse and Chapel, and in 1537/8 he received a much smaller sum for supplying paints to painters at Falkland Palace.
Selected sources: Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), p. 24; Henry M. Paton, ed., Accounts of the Masters of the Works for Building and Repairing Royal Castles and Palaces (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1957 and 1982), I, pp. 86, 190-91, 215.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Anyston, Aniston, Anyson
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Nottinghamshire and/or Yorkshire
Occuptational description: herald painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1580s-post 1609
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Anyston painted arms for funerals which were illicitly conducted by the "counterfeit herald" William Dakins, through the 1580s.
Biographical notes: Anyston was accused in 1609 of painting heraldic devices illicitly for numerous funerals in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.
Selected sources: William Smith, "A Brief Discourse of the Causes of Discord..", Folger Shakespeare Library MS. V.a. 157, fol. 12v-13r; Ann Payne, "William Smith, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant: Appendix", in Nigel Ramsay, ed., Heralds and Heraldry in Shakespeare"s England, (Donington, 2014), p. 62.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Ap Howell
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cheshire: Chester
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1533/4 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Company of Painters, Glaziers, Embroiderers and Stationers" Company of Chester, 1533/4.
Selected sources: J.H.E. Bennett, ed., The Rolls of the Freemen of the City of Chester, (Publications of the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, 51, 1906) p. 20.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Aplen
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Yorkshire: Darlington
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. by 1542/3
Work dates:
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: His son was apprenticed in Bristol to a master of another trade, 1542.
Selected sources: Elizabeth Ralph and Nora M. Hardwick, eds., Calendar of the Bristol Apprentice Book, 1532-1565, part II, 1542-1552 (Bristol Record Society, 33, 1980), 7, no. 79.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Applyne, Aplyne, Apsyne
Forename: Melchion, Melchior
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Yorkshire: Kingston-upon-Hull
Occuptational description: painter, heraldic painter
Life dates: will 1591
Work dates:
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Applyne was cited in 1609 by William Smith, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, as having illicitly painted heraldic devices at funerals with his son Samuel.
Selected sources: Anon., ed., Wills in the York Registry, 1585-1594 (Yorkshire Archaelogical Society, 22, 1897), p. 3.; William Smith, "A Brief Discourse of the Causes of Discord..", Folger Shakespeare Library MS. V.a. 157, fol. 14r.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Applyne, Aplyne
Forename: Samuel
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Yorkshire: Kingston-upon-Hull (?)
Occuptational description: painter, heraldic painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1609
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Applyne was cited in 1609 by William Smith, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, as illicitly having painted heraldic devices at funerals with his father Melchoir.
Selected sources: William Smith, "A Brief Discourse of the Causes of Discord..", Folger Shakespeare Library MS. V.a. 157, fol. 14r.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Appowys, Ap Powys
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1551/2
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Appowys is recorded as working in the Revels, 1551/2, and as grinding pigments from their raw materials. He may have done this as a part-time occupation along with painting itself.
Selected sources: Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Revels at Court in the time of King Edward VI and Queen Mary (Louvain, 1914), p. 66, 101, 132.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Appryce
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Devon: (Buckerell?)
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1546
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited in an action for trespass in the Court of Common Pleas, 1546.
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/1127/2405d
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: ap Robert
Forename: David
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cheshire: Chester
Occuptational description: journeyman painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1612-14
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Journeyman to Randle Holme the elder of Chester, 1612-14.
Selected sources: Chester Record Office, MS. ZG 17/1 (unpaginated; see by date).
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Apson, Apsome, Hapsom
Forename: Edmund, Edward
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1551-53
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Apson worked on the royal banqueting house, Hyde Park, 1551
Biographical notes: Employed in the Royal Works, 1551, 1553.
Selected sources: Roy Strong, "More Tudor Artists", Burlington Magazine, 108 (1966) pp. 83-85, repr. in Strong, The Tudor and Stuart Monarchy, Pageantry, Painting, Iconography (3 vols., Woodbridge, 1995) I, p. 148; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Revels at Court in the time of King Edward VI and Queen Mary (Louvain, 1914), p. 131..
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Arden
Forename: Christopher
Origin:
Place of work/residence: : Buckinghamshire: Aylesbury
Occuptational description: painter and glazier
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1645-46
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Decorative work on the Aylesbury, Bucks., market hall, 1645/6, and may have been active prior to 1640.
Biographical notes: Arden painted Aylesbury Market Hall, 1645-46, and may have been active prior to 1640.
Selected sources: The National Archives SP 28/207
Researched by: Malcom Airs


Surname: Arger see Harger
Forename: Nicholas


Surname: Arkemen, see Acreman


Surname: Arnold the Painter"
Forename: [unknown]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Westminster: St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 1597
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1597
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: leather buckets in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 1597.
Biographical notes: Obviously a decorative painter of modest skill and/or reputation, as he was employed to paint leather buckets at the same time that "Mr Lover" was paid £3 5s to paint the new loft and columns of the same church.
Selected sources: John V. Kitto, ed., St. Martin-in-the-Fields: Accounts of the Churchwardens, 1525-1603 (London, 1901), p. 501.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Arnold
Forename: Peter
Origin: Alien
Place of work/residence: Westminster: St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 1635
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1635
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Painter to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1635.
Selected sources: Irene Scouloudi, ed., Returns of Strangers in the Metropolis 1593, 1627, 1635, 1639 (Huguenot Society of London, quarto series, vol. 52, 1985), p. 241-42.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Arnolde"; see Arnold van Bronckhurst
Forename:
Origin:
Place of work/residence:
Occuptational description:
Life dates:
Work dates:
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources:
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Arrowsmith
Forename: Edward
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1640
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Member of the yeomanry, Painter-Stainers" Company of London, 1640.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/152.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Arrowsmith
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St Dunstan in the Wesst
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1575-1610
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Arrowsmith is identified as a painter in the baptismal records of his children, and also as the painter of leather buckets, used to fight fires, all in the parish church of St. Dunstan"s in the West. He may well have been a descendant of Robert Arrowsmith (q.v.) and father of Edward (q.v.).
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 29.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Arrowsmith
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Sussex: Laughton
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1533
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited in an action for trespass in the Court of Common Pleas, 1533.
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/4679f and /6024d.
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Artem, Artam, Arttein, Arten, Arton, Ortem, Orteny
Forename: Rowland, Rowley
Origin: Dutch: b. Antwerp
Place of work/residence: London: St Michael"s Candlewick, in 1568
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: c. 1509-1576/7.
Work dates: fl. c. 1530s-d. 1576/7.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Artem came to England either in 1509 or 1511, and was first denizened in 1544 when it is noted that he had been in England for 35 years, though this may be an error. He is recorded as a member of the Austin Friars congregation, but was noted in 1568 as living in Candlewick Street Ward and attending St. Michael"s Church at that time. By 1571 he is listed at Castle Baynard Ward, St. Andrew"s parish, and as having been in England for 55 years. He did decorative painting at both Whitehall and Hampton Court c. 1531-33.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 180; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , p. 162. R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, eds., Return of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908), I, pp. 89, 476; II, p. 86; III, pp. 340, 396; William Page, ed., Letters of Denization and Acts of Naturalization for Aliens in England (Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, VIII, 1893), p. 9; Hope Walker, "Netherlandish Painters in Tudor London, 1560-1580", (unpublished MPhil thesis, Courtauld Institute, 2014, cited with kind permission of the author); Appendix 3, vide Artem.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Hope Walker


Surname: Arthur
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Chelmsford
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1628
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: the King"s Arms, Chelsford parish church, 1628
Biographical notes: Arthur is recorded as a local painter who did the King"s Arms in Chelmsford Parish Church, 1628.
Selected sources: Rosemary Pardos, Royal Arms in Churches: The Artists and Craftsmen, http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/Royal Arms3.html (1987), see by alphabetical listing.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Asgar, Esgar
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1527
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Decorative painting at Greenwich
Biographical notes: Employed in Royal Works, 1527.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 152; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 153, 157.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Ash
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Surrey: Southwark, 1639
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1639
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Ash"s son Alexander baptised 3 Jan. 1639, at Southwark, St. Saviour"s.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. P92/Sav/3001
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Ashendon
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury St. Margaret"s Northgate in 1615
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1604/5, 1615, 1631.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Ashendon was licensed to marry Alice Blyghton, November, 1615; he was cited giving a bond in a marriage attestation, 1631.
Selected sources: Canterbury Cathedral Archives, MS. CC-FA 21 f. 102v.; J.M. Cowper, ed., The Roll of the Freemen of the City of Canterbury from 1392 to 1800 (Canterbury, 1903), p. 169; J.M. Cowper, ed., Canterbury Marriage Licenses, first series, 1568-1618 (Canterbury, 1892), p. 9; J.M. Cowper, ed., Canterbury Marriage Licenses, second series, 1618-1660 (Canterbury, 1894). column 555.

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Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Asher
Forename: Edward
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Haberdasher
Life dates:
Work dates: 1629
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Haberdashers" Company of London, Asher was fined for "using the art of painting" without license in 1629.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/46.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Asplyn, Asplyne, Asplynne
Forename: Arthur
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1551
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Work at Royal Banqueting House, 1551
Biographical notes: Employed in the Royal Works, 1551.
Selected sources: Roy Strong, "More Tudor Artists", Burlington Magazine, 108 (1966) pp. 83-85, repr. in Strong, The Tudor and Stuart Monarchy, Pageantry, Painting, Iconography (3 vols., Woodbridge, 1995) I, p. 148; Alan Borg , The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 196.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Asplyn, Asplyne, Asplynne, Asplin, Apslye
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Albans Wood St.
Occuptational description: decorative painter, Painter-Stainer
Life dates: will 1587
Work dates: fl. 1536-66/7
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Asplyn painted conduit heads for the new conduit house in 1566/7 for £ 5 8s 4d, painted and gilded the city"s arms, Sir John Lyon"s and his wife"s arms, and also two" tables" upon the new market house at Queenhithe for £ 3, all in 1566/7.
Biographical notes: Asplyn carried out decorative and heraldic painting in Queenhithe and elsewhere.
Selected sources: Susan Foister, "Foreigners at Court, Holbein, Van Dyck, and the Painter-Stainers" Company", in David Howarth, ed., Art and Patronage in the Caroline Court, Essays in Honour of Sir Oliver Millar (Cambridge, 1993) p. 44; Betty Masters, ed., Chamber Accounts of the Sixteenth Century (London Record Society, 20, 1984), item 316; London Metropolitan Archives MS. DL/C/B004/MS09171/016/342v; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 29.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Asplyn, Apslye, Apslyn
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1551-post 1560
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Work on Royal Banqueting House, 1551
Biographical notes: Asplyn, probably related to John and Arthur Asplyn, was employed in the Revels, 1551-53.
Selected sources: Roy Strong, "More Tudor Artists", Burlington Magazine, 108 (1966) pp. 83-85, repr. in Strong, The Tudor and Stuart Monarchy, Pageantry, Painting, Iconography (3 vols., Woodbridge, 1995) I, p. 148; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Revels at Court in the time of King Edward VI and Queen Mary (Louvain, 1914), pp. 66, 101, 131.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Atkins
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Warwickshire: Coventry
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1525
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Atkins was cited in a subsidy roll of 1525, assessed at 40s.
Selected sources: Mary H.M. Hulton, Coventry and its People in the 1520s (Dugdale Society 38, 1999), p. 187.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Atkinson
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Warwickshire: Coventry
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1522
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited in a muster roll of 1522 as fellow of Trinity Guild.
Selected sources: Mary H.M. Hulton, Coventry and its People in the 1520s (Dugdale Society 38, 1999), p. 101.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Atkinson
Forename: Joseph
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: Broad St., 1634
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1627-35
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Atkinson was a member of Painter-Stainers" Company of London, 1627 ff., and was nominated as Warden of the Company in 1635. He was party to a bond for a loan of £50 witnessed at his house in Broad Street, London, 21 May, 1634.
Selected sources: East Riding Yorkshire Record and Archives Service MS. DDRI/26/58; London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/28, 001/30, et seq.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Atkinson
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Lancashsire: Kendal: Stramongate
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: d. 1649
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: His will was probated in April, 1649, and therefore he was probably active prior to 1640.
Selected sources: Lancashire County Record Office MS. W/RW/K/R402C/6
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Atkynson
Forename: Edward
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1531-3
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Work at Westminster and Whitehall Palaces.
Biographical notes: Employed in the Royal Works, 1531-3.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 152; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), pp. 153, 163.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Atton
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: Westminster
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1620
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Atton was identified as a painter when he signed a recognizance for good behaviour, 1620.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives, MS. WJ/SR(NS)2/020.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Audrey, Awdrye
Forename: John the elder
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Martin Vintry
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1557-1594.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: A painting of the conversion of Saul, left to the Painter-Stainers" Company to be displayed in the Hall.
Biographical notes: Audrey was a member of the Painter Stainers" Company of London from c. 1573; executor to the will of the Essex yeoman (possibly a cousin) William Blackmore in 1573.
Selected sources: F.G. Emmison, ed., Essex Wills, The Commissary Court 1569-1578 (Chelmsford, 1994), p. 19; London Metropolitan Archives MS. DL/C/B004/MS09171/018/173 and CLC/L/PA/G/012/MS05670/17; Edward Town, ed., "A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 30.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Audrey, Awdrye
Forename: John the younger
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Martin Vintry
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. 1612
Work dates: to 1612
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: John was the son of John the elder, and was probably admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company by patrimony, though no evidence of this has been found.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 30.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Audrey, Awdry
Forename: Leonard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited as a painter in the record of his burial, 26 July, 1608.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Undoubtedly a relative of John the elder and younger (q.v.), Leonard is known only from the record of his burial, and so cannot have been a prominent member of his trade.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 30.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Augustyne
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St Dunstant in the West at death(?)
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1531-63.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Augustine worked at Westminster Palace and in decorating the gallery at Whitehall, 1531-33.
Biographical notes: Augustine worked at Westminster Palace and in decorating the gallery at Whitehall, 1531-33.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 152; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), pp. 153, 163; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p30. .
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Austin
Forename: Nathaniel
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1613 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters (3rd ed., Woodbridge, 1988) p. 15.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Austin
Forename: widow
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1632
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: The widow Austin, whose forename has not been recorded, was accused by the Painter-Stainers" Company searchers in 1632 of working as a painter. Her husband, dead since 1625, was also accused, though he was an Embroiderer. May be the widow of Nathaniel Austin (q.v.).
Selected sources: Alan Borg, The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 57.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Awood
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Worcestershire: Evesham
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1543
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited in 1543 as resident in an Evesham tenement.
Selected sources: James Gairdner and R.S. Brodie, eds., Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, 1543 ( 18:1, 1901), p. 530.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Axson
Forename: Gregory
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Norfolk: Norwich
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: 1571 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted Freeman of Norwich, July, 1571.
Selected sources: Percy Millican, ed., The Register of the Freemen of Norwich, 1548-1713 (Norwich, 1934), p. 107.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: B.
Forename: H.
Origin:
Place of work/residence: [unknown]
Occuptational description:
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1550
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive, vide painters" files.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Raewyn Passmore


Surname: B.
Forename: I. [J?]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: [unknown]
Occuptational description:
Life dates:
Work dates:
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive, vide painters" files.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Babb, Babbe
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1602
Work dates: fl. 1585-1602
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Robert Greenwood
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Babb had not yet completed his apprenticeship at the death of his master, Robert Greenwood (q.v.) in 1585, but eventually gained suport from Lord Admiral Thomas Howard, earl of Nottingham, who secured for him work on the royal ships. He may be the Robert Babb of St. Botolph"s Aldgate who married the daughter of Toby Randall the younger (q.v.), and moved to St. Mildred Poultry thereafter.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 30.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Babb, Babbe
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Dunstant in the West, probably of Fetter Lane
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1649
Work dates: fl. 1610-49
Master of: John Powell, prior to 1633.
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted the "ensign" for St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 1616/17 for 30s, worked on the sun dial at St. Clemnent Danes with Michael Bowden (q.v.) and other works at the same church on his own. Along with John Withie he painted banners and streamers for the Barber Surgeons" Company in 1627/8 for £ 15; and on his own he painted the tomb of Sir Bulstrode Whitelock, in Fawley, Bucks., in 1632 for £ 14.
Biographical notes: Babb was most likely the son of Robert Babb (q.v.) in which case he would have been admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company by patrimony. He became one of the most prominent members of that Company in the 1620s and "30s, serving as Upper Warden, 1629, and Master, 1636. He was one of the Company"s spokesmen in the prolonged litigation of 1634-37 in the Court of Chivalry between the heralds of the College of arms and the Painter-Stainers over the right of the latter to do heraldic painting, and had been since c. 1622 one of the eight Painter-Stainers permitted by the College of Arms to paint arms for funeral ceremonies. He actively pursued that activity to the end of his life. He often collaborated with others, and did a wide range of decorative and heraldic painting in London and occasionaly elsewhere. Along with his fellow Company officers Clement Pargiter and William Peacock, he was portrayed in a painting which still survives in Painters" Hall.
Selected sources: A .P. Arnold and Arthur G. Ingram, The History of the Painter-Stainers" Company of London (2 vols., 1988), II, p. 51; Alan Borg, The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 210; London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/1 et seq; Peter Sherlock, Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England (Aldershot, Hampshire, 2008) p. 180; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) pp. 30-31; The College of Arms, MSS. I 3 and "Painters" Workbook 001", passim.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Michael Berlin


Surname: Babington
Forename: Ewre
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1634
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted and gilded the barge of the earl of Holland, 1634.
Biographical notes: Babington painted a barge and did other work for the earl of Holland, 1634, for £ 36 15s 4d.
Selected sources: The National Archives, E.192/16/4.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bacon
Forename: Nathaniel, Sir
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Culford
Occuptational description: gentleman painter
Life dates: 1585-1627
Work dates: c. 1610-27
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Several self-portraits; still lives, including "The Cook Maid with Still-Life of Birds", "The Cook Maid with Still Life of Game", and "The Cook Maid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit".
Biographical notes: Sir Nathaniel was a well-born, gentleman painter, the grandson of Elizabeth"s Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Sir Nicholas Bacon. Travelled and probably studied abroad at some point, and returned to his home at Culford, Suffolk where, eschewing a political career, he remained for the rest of his life. He was a major innovator in the English tradition of still-life painting.
Selected sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Bacon, Sir Nathaniel; Karen Hearn, Nathaniel Bacon, Artist, Gentleman and Gardener (2005); ; National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive, painter files, vide Bacon, Nathaniel; Mary Edmond, `Bury St Edmunds: A Seventeenth-Century Art Centre`, Walpole Society, (43 for 1987 , 1989), pp. 106-18; Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 81.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bagwell
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1627
Master of: His unnamed apprentice admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London, 1627.
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London in 1627.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/27.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Bairhum, Bairham
Forename: Andrew
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland: Kinloss Abbey
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1538-41
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Extensive painting at Kinloss Abbey
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), p. 25.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Baker
Forename: [unknown]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Dover
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1586/7
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Kent History and Library Centre MS, Dover, MS. FCa3, fol. 191v.
Researched by: Helen E. Wicker, Robert Tittler


Surname: Baker
Forename: Jasper
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: 1639 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Arthur Smithson, prior to 1639/40.
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers of London by apprenticeship with Arthur Smithson (q.v.) , 1639/40.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/144.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Michael Berlin


Surname: Baker
Forename: John (?)
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1570/1
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Probably the "Baker the Painter" who painted the mural sequence known as "The Story", Carpenters" Hall, 1570/1 for 53s.
Biographical notes: Probably the "Baker the Painter" who painted the mural sequence known as "The Story", Carpenters" Hall, 1570/1 for 53s.
Selected sources: Bower Marsh, ed., Records of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, IV, Warden"s Account Book (Oxford, 1916), p. 244; B. W. E. Alford and T.C. Barker, A History of the Carpenters" Company (1968), pp. 225-227.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Baker
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Norfolk: Bishop"s/King"s Lynn
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1505
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited in the Court of Common Pleas in an action for debt, 1505.
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/971/853d.
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Baker
Forename: Nicholas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Chafford Hundred
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1577
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Required to appear at Essex Quarter Sessions, 1577.
Selected sources: Essex Record Office MS. Q/SR 62/51.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Baker
Forename: Peter
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter-stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1569
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Baker proposed a design for a London pageant to the Ironmongers" Company in 1569.
Biographical notes: Baker proposed a design to the Ironmongers" Company for a London pageant in 1569, but it was not produced.
Selected sources: Jean Robertson and D.J. Gordon, eds., A Calendar of Dramatic Records in the Books of the Livery Companies of London, 1485-1640 (Malone Society Collections, III, 1954), p. 50.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Baker
Forename: Richard I
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Martin "s without Ludgate (1571); St. Botolph"s Aldgate (1584/5).
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates: c. 1530-84
Work dates: fl. c.1551-c. 1584
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Richard worked at the Royal Banqueting House, 1551, and painted a pageant wagon for the Ironmongers" Company, 1566. He may have been the Richard Baker who painted a picture of the "Woman of Samaria" for Mary Tudor in 1556, and was probably "Baker the painter" who was paid 54s to do a mural sequence for the Carpenters" Hall in 1571. He had extensive contacts with Dutch painters like John de Frank (q.v.), and Jacob Matheeensen.
Biographical notes: The two Richard Bakers, both contemporaries and London painters, are extremely diffuclt to distinguish. Both were employed in the Revels, 1552/3 and possibly in 1571/72 as well. This Richard was employed in the Royal Works, in which capacity he worked at the Royal Banqueting House, 1551, and in the Revels in 1552/3. He seems to have been the Richard Baker who painted a picture of the "Woman of Samaria" for Mary Tudor in 1556. Baker (or his namesake and contemporary) agreed to paint the Ironmongers" pageant wagon in 1566. Three of his children were admitted to Christ"s Hospital in 1571, 1572 and 1585, suggeting that he was not able to provide for them at those times. He is probably the Richard Baker who died and was buried at St. Botolph"s Aldgate, 19 July, 1584. His namesake, Richard Baker (d., 1574 or 1575?, q.v.), known as Richard Baker of Bishopsgate Street, was employed in the Revels in 1552/3 at the same time as he was, the latter . The former Richard Baker was also employed in the Revels in 1571-1574 and was probably "Baker the painter" who was paid 54s to do a mural sequence for the Carpenters" Hall in 1571. It is more likely he who enjoyed extensive contacts with Dutch painters like John de Frank (q.v.), and Jacob Matheeensen, and it was probably he who received the gift of a picture in the 1570 will of the Dutch painter Jason Matheeunson.
Selected sources: Roy Strong, "More Tudor Artists", Burlington Magazine, 108 (1966) pp. 83-85, repr. in Strong, The Tudor and Stuart Monarchy, Pageantry, Painting, Iconography (3 vols., Woodbridge, 1995) I, p. 148; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 152; John Nicholl, An Account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers (1851), p. 94; George A.T. Allan, ed., Christ"s Hospital Admissions I (1937) pp. 102, 103, 199; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Revels at Court in the time of King Edward VI and Queen Mary (Louvain, 1914), p. 101; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), pp. 134, 172, 195, 215, 231; London Metropolitan Archives MS. P69/BOT2/A/002/MS09221, vide 19 July, 1584; The National Archives, PROB 11/52/357; Jean Robertson and D.J. Gordon, eds., A Calendar of Dramatic Records in the Books of the Livery Companies of London, 1485-1640 (Malone Society Collections, III, 1954), p. 45; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) pp. 31-2.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Hope Walker


Surname: Baker
Forename: Richard II
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: Bishopsgate St. in 1552/3
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates: d. 1575 (?)
Work dates: cited 1552/3, (1566?)
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: The two Richard Bakers, both contemporaries and London painters, and extremely diffuclt to distinguish. Both were employed in the Revels, 1552/3 and possibly in 1571/72 as well. This was probably the Richard Baker also employed in the Revels in 1571-1574 and may have been the one who painted the mural sequence for the Carpenters" Hall in 1571 for 54s. . He may also be the Richard Baker who made the pageant , including its painting and carpentry, for the Ironmonger"s pageant in the Lord Mayor"s Show of 1566, and who received the gift of a picture in the 1570 will of the Dutch painter Jacob Matheeusen .
Selected sources: Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Revels at Court in the time of King Edward VI and Queen Mary (Louvain, 1914), p. 101.; The National Archives, PROB 11/52/357; Jean Robertson and D.J. Gordon, eds., A Calendar of Dramatic Records in the Books of the Livery Companies of London, 1485-1640 (Malone Society Collections, III, 1954), p. 45; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) pp. 31-2.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Hope Walker


Surname: Baker
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: [unknown]
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1582-3
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted details and walls at Greenwich, 1582-3
Biographical notes: Painted details and walls at Greenwich, 1582-3
Selected sources: H.M. Colvin, et al., The History of the King's Works (7 vols., 1963-82) , IV, 109.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Baker
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Berkshire: Eton
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1479-88
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Wall paintings at Eton College Chapel
Biographical notes: A muralist, assumed to have painted Eton College Chapel; may have painted after 1500.
Selected sources: Courtauld Institute, Witt Library, painters" files , vide Baker, William; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 13, 153; Andrew Martindale, "The Wall Paintings in the Chapel of Eton College", in C. Barron and N. Saul, eds., England and the Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages (Stroud, 1995) pp. 149-50.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Raewyn Passmore


Surname: Balbe
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1630
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A yeoman in the Painter-Stainers" Company of London, Balbe promised to work in the Company Hall, 1630.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/54
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Michael Berlin


Surname: Balechous, Ballechouse, Balleshous, Balechou
Forename: John, Jehan
Origin: French or Flemish
Place of work/residence: Derbyshire and elsewhere
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: b. c. early 1530s-d. 1618
Work dates: fl. 1570s-d. c. 1618
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Hardwick Old and New Hall, Derbyshire; 1578; Chatsworth, Derbyshire; Little Keep, Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire. Painted a frieze in the Hardwick Hall gallery; possibly painted the" Return of Ulysses to Penelope" (c. 1570), in Hardwick withdrawing room.
Biographical notes: Also known as "John Painter". A painter by trade, but he also supervised works at Hardwick Hall, 1597, and thus may have been more than a mere craftsman. He seems to have been associated over a longer term with Hardwick"s designer, Robert Smithson. Balechous served as a permanent member of the Cavendish household at £2 per year plus keep. He received a rent-free farm at Bolsover and served as the landlord of the New Inn at Hardwick until d. 1618 . He was almost certainly responsible for much of the painted decoration of the New Hall and the painted cloths in the chapel. He remained a favoured craftsman of "Bess", countess Shrewsbury, who gave the family (including his wife and son) several rewards.
Selected sources: Karen Hearn, "An English Gentleman Painter, Henry Gibbs", Burlington Magazine, 140: 1139 (February, 1998) pp. 99–101; J.C. Davies, A History of Borlase School (Aylesbury, 1932), p. 82; Malcolm Airs, The Tudor and Jacobean Country House (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1999), pp. 71, 157; Basil Stallybrass, "Bess of Hardwick"s Buildings and Building Accounts", Archaeologia, 2nd ser., 64 (1913), p. 398; N. Durant and P. Riden, eds., The Building of Hardwick Hall, I. The Old Hall, 1587-91, (Derbyshire Record Society, IV (1980) xxiii-iv, and IX (1984), lxviii-lxx; N. Durant, The Smythson Circle (2011); Anthony Wells-Cole, Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1997), pp. 275-6, 285-89, 298; James Ayres, Art, Artisans & Apprentices, Apprentice Painters & Sculptors in the Early Modern British Tradition (Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014), p. 273 n. 6..
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bales
Forename: Humphrey
Origin:
Place of work/residence: [unknown]
Occuptational description: herald painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1570s
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Anthony Wagner, Heralds of England (1967), p. 200.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Ball
Forename: Jan, Ian
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: c. 1626 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Robert Norman
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship with Robert Norman, 1626.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS005667/001/20 and 001/133.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Ball
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1633
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London in 1633.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/84
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Ballard
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1549
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: Alan Borg, The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 196.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bande, see Bond
Forename: Robert


Surname: Bankes, Banks
Forename: James
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cheshire: Chester
Occuptational description: journeyman painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1626
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed as a journeyman painter by John Taylor (q.v.) of Chester, 1626
Selected sources: Cheshire Record Office MS. ZCR 63/2/131, fol. 12r.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Banks, Bankes, Bankys
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. c. 1651
Work dates: fl. 1627-c. 1651
Master of: William Flower (to 1638)
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Banks was admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London in 1627; he was engaged in a dispute with William Sutton II (q.v.) in 1637/8; and served as master to the apprentice William Flower (q.v.) to 1638.
Selected sources: Alan Borg, The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 210; J.C. Whitebrook and W. Whitebrook, eds., London Citizens in 1651 [c. 1910], p. 7; London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/30, et seq.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Michael Berlin


Surname: Banyster, Banister
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Sussex: Eastbourne
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: will 1558; proven 1560
Work dates: fl. to c. 1558
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: W.H. Hall, ed., Calendar of Wills and Administrations in the Archdeaconry Court of Lewes, Index Library, 24 (1901) p. 42.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barber
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1558-59
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed in the Revels, 1558/59. Possibly the same as John Barbor of Leicester (q.v.) , active at the same time.
Selected sources: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), p. 86; Thomas North, ed., The Accounts of the Churhwardens of St. Martin's Leicester (Leicester, 1884), pp. 67, 70, 72, 78, 88, 96.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barber
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Leicestershire: Leicester
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1549-58
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Antique and decorative work in the Leicester Guildhall (1549/50) and various decorative work for St. Martin s parish church, Leicester, 1554-58.
Biographical notes: Barber"s known work is at Leicester, though there is some possibility that he may be the same John Barber (q.v.) as was active in the Revels, based in London and Westminster, at roughly the same time. At Leicester St. Martin's he received payment for such work as dressing the altar, painting banners, and gilding the rood carvings of Saints Mary and John, the latter work aided by his wife (q.v.) who was paid separately for so doing.
Selected sources: Mary Bateson, ed., Records of the Borough of Leicester, (Cambridge, (1905), III, p. 64; Thomas North, ed., Accounts of the Churchwardens of St. Martin's Leicester (Leicester, 1884), pp. 67, 70, 72, 78, 79, 88, 96.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barber
Forename: wife of John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Leicester
Occuptational description: painter and/or gilder
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1557/8
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Gilded the rood carvings in St. Martin's Leicester, 1557/8
Biographical notes: The wife of the painter John Barber of Leicester, and worked, as he did, on gilding of the rood carvings of Saints Mary and John in St. Martin's Church in 1557/8. But as she was paid separately, she seems to have done this on her own and not as her husband"s helper. This raises the possibility that her husband left Leicester in that year to work in the Revels, where a namesake is recorded (q.v.), and that she finished up in Leicester for him. Her forename is not recorded.
Selected sources: Thomas North, ed., Accounts of the Churchwardens of St. Martin's Leicester (Leicester, 1884), pp. 67, 70, 72, 78, 79, 88, 96.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barber
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cheshire: Chester
Occuptational description: journeyman painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1640
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed by John Wright (q.v.) as a journeyman painter in Chester, 1640.
Selected sources: Cheshire Record Office MS ZG 17/2 (unpaginated; see by date).
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barbour
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Norfolk: Norwich
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: 1573 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Freemanry of Norwich by apprenticeship, Sept., 1573.
Selected sources: Percy Millican, ed., The Register of the Freemen of Norwich, 1548-1713 (Norwich, 1934), p. 107; Victor Morgan, "The Norwich Guildhall Portraits: Images in Context", in Andrew Moore and Charlotte Crawley, eds., Family and Friends, a Regional Survey of British Portraiture (London, 1992) pp. 21-30, p. 28.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barchilde/Barchiler
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: 1631 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: John Brockas
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship with John Brockas (q.v.) , 1631.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/63.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Michael Berlin


Surname: Barde, Baert
Forename: Joyce [male]
Origin: Alien: Flemish
Place of work/residence: London: St. Gregory"s Parish, Castle Baynard Ward, 1568
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. 1570
Work dates: in England 1568; d. 1570
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, eds., Return of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908) , III, p. 387; Hope Walker, "Netherlandish Painters in Tudor London, 1560-1580", (unpublished MPhil thesis, Courtauld Institute, 2014, cited with kind permission of the author); Appendix 3, vide Barde .
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Hope Walker


Surname: Barker
Forename: Charles
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cumberland: Naworth Castle, 1629-33
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1629-33
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed at Naworth Castle by Lord William Howard, c. 1629-1633.
Selected sources: Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 85
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barker
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Norfolk: Bishop"s Lynn/King"s Lynn
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1462-post 1481, possibly to 1500.
Master of: William Barker
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Anon., A Calendar of the Freemen of King’s Lynn (Norwich, 1913), p. 58.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barker
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1571-72
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed in the Revels, 1571/72
Selected sources: Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), p. 134.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barker
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Norfolk: Bishop"s Lynn/King"s Lynn
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1481-1519
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: John Barker
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Anon., A Calendar of the Freemen of King’s Lynn (Norwich, 1913), p. 66; Norwich and Norwich Record Office MS. KL/C50/483.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barklett
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Surrey: Southwark, St. Saviour"s, 1633
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1633
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Barklett is identified as a painter when his daughter Abigail was baptised, 8 Sept., 1633, Southwark, St. Saviour"s.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. P92/Sav/3002 at date indicated.
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Barnard
Forename: Anthony
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Sussex: Chichester
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: 1514-1619
Work dates: fl. 1540s -1619
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Assisted his father Lambert with some of the portraits in Chichester Cathedral.
Biographical notes: Anthony was the son of Lambert Barnard I and father of Lambert Barnard II. Lived to the age of 105.
Selected sources: Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 86; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 153.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barnard
Forename: Lambert I
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Sussex: Chichester
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: c. 1490s (?)-1567/8
Work dates: fl. c. 1514-1567/8
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Extensive portraiture and decorative painting in Chichester Cathedral, Amberly Castle, Boxgrove Priory Church, and Cowdray House, all in Sussex. Possibly executed miniatures with Renaissance architectural backgrounds in the Pembroke-Northumberland copy of John Lydgate"s "Troy Book" and "Story of Thebes" (British Museum, Royal MS. 18, vii).
Biographical notes: Lambert I was the court painter to Robert Sherborne, Bishop of Chichester (1508-36). First recorded in the Cathedral archives in 1529 as tenant of land at Lathorne Manor, in 1533 he was granted annuity of £3.6.8 in recognition of long service in the past – and was to receive £14.8.0 p.a. if commissioned to work for the bishop or Cathedral. he performed extensive portraiture and decorative painting in Chichester Cathedral, Amberly Castle (English Queens), Boxgrove Priory Church, and Cowdray House, all in Sussex. He may have executed miniatures with Renaissance architectural backgrounds in the Pembroke-Northumberland copy of John Lydgate"s "Troy Book" and "Story of Thebes" (British Museum, Royal MS. 18, vii).
Selected sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Barnard, Lambert; Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 86; Courtauld Institute, Witt Library, painters" files, vide Barnard, Lambert; Christopher Wright, Catherine Gordon and Mary Peskett Smith, eds., British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections (New Haven and London, 2006), p. 84; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), pp. 153-4; ; E. Croft-Murray & P. Hilton, Catalogue of British Drawing in the British Museum, I (1960), xiii.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Malcom Airs


Surname: Barnard
Forename: Lambert II
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Sussex: Chichester
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: b. 1581- post 1630
Work dates: fl. C. 1600-post 1630.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Lambert II was the son of Anthony Barnard; he was identified as a painter when he gave a deposition in Peculiar Court of the Dean of Chichester, November, 1630.
Selected sources: WeSt. Sussex Record Office, Chichester, MSS. Ep/IV/3/1, fol. 27 and Ep/III/5/2, fols. 54-82; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 24-25, 153, 193.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Barnes
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, 1629, 1633/34
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1629-34
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Barnes was identified as a painter when his son William baptised 1629; Arthur in 1633; Abigale, 1634; all at St. Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/002, (unpaginated; see by date).
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Barnton
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland: Edinburgh
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1633
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Work at Holyroodhouse, 1633
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), p. 25.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barnys, [Barnes?]
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1543/4
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Barnys paid an annual fee for being allowed to work and trade in Canterbury, from which it appears he was not a freeman of that City
Selected sources: J.M. Cowper, ed., Intrantes; A List of Persons Admitted to Live and Trade within the City of Canterbury,1392-1592 (Canterbury, 1904) col. 209.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barriston
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Katherine Cree
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1618
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Barriston is identified as a painter when he was granted a license to marry in 1618.
Selected sources: J.L. Chester, London Marriage Licenses, 1521-1869, ed. Joseph Foster(1884) column 87.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barre, Barry
Forename: Andrew
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland: Aberdeen, Edinburgh
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: 1533-post 1543
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Work at Holyroodhouse, 1537/38
Biographical notes: Barre or Barry received payment for painting, gilding, refreshing and cleaning the great arms in the hall of Holyroodhouse in 1537/38. He was cited as a freeman painter of Aberdeen, in 1543 and after.
Selected sources: Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), pp. 25-6; Henry M. Paton, ed., Accounts of the Masters of the Works for Building and Repairing Royal Castles and Palaces (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1957 and 1982), I, p. 224.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barrow
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1632
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited as unlicensed painter, 1632.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/73.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Barry, see Barre
Forename: Andrew
Origin:
Place of work/residence:
Occuptational description:
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1538
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources:
Researched by:


Surname: Barthall
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Surrey: Southwark: St. Saviour"s, 1630
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1630
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Barthall was identified as a painter when his daughter Mary was baptised, 24 Oct., 1630, Southwark: St. Saviour"s.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. P92/Sav/3002 at dates indicated.
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Barthillmew, Bartholomew
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1571-73
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed in the Revels, 1572/3.
Selected sources: Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), p. 172.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bartlett, Bartlott
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Beccles
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1545
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited in an action of debt in the Court of Common Pleas, 1545
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/1124/462f.
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Bartlett
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: 1628 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted by patrimony to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London, 1628.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/40.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Michael Berlin


Surname: Bartlett
Forename: Stephen
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Warwickshire: Bridgetown and Stratford-u-Avon
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1636
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, MS. BRT 8/201/51.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bartlett
Forename: Thomas I
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1558-1593
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: William Calton
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship with William Calton (q.v.) , Bartlett received one pound in his master"s 1558 will. He is identified as a painter when he signed an indenture, 1572-3, and a deed, 1575-6, and was involved in an Exchequer case in 1572/3. He is likely to have been the father of Thomas Bartlett II (q.v.) .
Selected sources: The National Archives, MS. PROB 82/287, PROB 11/40/346; MS. E .211/602, and MS. E.210/10548; R. Mark Benbow, ed., ‘Notes to Index of London Citizens Involved in City Government, 1558-1603’ (2 vols. unpublished manuscript, c. 1993; Institute of Historical Research, London University), pp. 252, 1226; J. Cordey Jeaffreson, ed., Middlesex County Records, I (1550-1603) and II (1603-1625), (London 1887), I, within pp. 169-75.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bartlett, Bartlytt
Forename: Thomas II
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, 1599, 1613, 1616
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1599-1616
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Thomas is likely to have been the son of Thomas Bartlett I (q.v.) . He remained an active membr of the parish of St. Giles Cripplegate throughout his life, and he is cited as a painter in the baptismal records of his children: George, August, 1599; son Francis in 1601, son John in 1611, daughter Mary, 1613, daughter Margaret, 1616. Bartlett received £ 3 15s for painting work at the Coopers" Company in 1611, and another 57 s for pinting at that Company"s holdings in Ratcliff.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MSS.P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/001 and P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/002, both see by date; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 32.
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson, Robert Tittler


Surname: Bartoll
Forename: Elias
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1610-1617
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bartoll is identified as a painter in the the baptismal record of his daughter Catherine, 26 August, 1610, and the admissions records of his son to Christ"s Hospital in 1616/17.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 32.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barton
Forename: Edmund
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Westminster: St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Occuptational description: picture-drawer
Life dates: 1551-1621
Work dates: fl. 1582 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: portraits of John Guillim and his wife, 1582
Biographical notes: Barton gave a recognizance to appear at Middlesex Sessions, 1587/8. He may be the same man as Edmund Burton (q.v.) who was cited in Westminster in 1587.
Selected sources: Jim Murrell, "John Guillem"s Book: A Heraldic Painter's Vade Mecum", Walpole Society 57 (1995) p. 8; National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, MS. 86.EE.69; J. Cordy Jeaffreson, ed., Middlesex County Records, I, 1550-1603 (London 1887) I, p. 173.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bartringham
Forename: William
Origin: Dutch
Place of work/residence: Norfolk: Norwich
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. 1579
Work dates: d. 1579
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: William and three of his children died, probably of plague, in August and September, 1579.
Selected sources: W.J.C. Moens, ed., The Walloons and their Church at Norwich, their History and Registers, 1565-1832 (2 parts, Lymington, 1887-1888), II p. 124.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barwell
Forename: Hugh
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Bristol
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1589 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted freeman of Bristol, 1589.
Selected sources: Bristol and Avon Family History Society, Bristol Burgess Index, I, , 1557-1599 (2004) vide Barwell, Hugh
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Barwick
Forename: Edmund
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer and herald-painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1614-1619
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Barwick possessed a book of heraldry which was purchased by the painter-stainer John Withie (q.v.) after Barwick"s death, probably in the 1620s.
Selected sources: T. H. Horne, A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum with Indexes of Persons, Places, and Matters, 4 vols (London: 1808), vol. II, p. 30
Researched by: Edward Town


Surname: Basford, Basforde, Bosford
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Leicestershire: Leicester
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1620/21-1622/3.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: painting work at St. Martin's Leicester
Biographical notes: Basford did general painting work at St. Martin's, Leicester, including the dial on the clockhouse clock (1620/21), the arch of the Chancel (1622/3) , and--with what seem to be partners George Longley (q.v.) and Robert Bradshaw (q.v.) -- the church itself in 1620/21.
Selected sources: Thomas North, ed., The Accounts of the Churchwardens of St. Martin's Leicester (Leicester, 1884), pp. 163, 166.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Basnet
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cheshire: Chester
Occuptational description: journeyman and (?) master painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1595-6
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed as a Chester journeyman in 1595 and made free of the Painter-Stainers, Glaziers, Embroiderers, and Stationers" Company of Chester in 1596, but it remains uncertain if he worked as a painter.
Selected sources: Chester Record Office, MS. ZG 17/1 (unpaginated; see by date).
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bassan, van
Forename: B."
Origin: Dutch: Antwerp (?)
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: tempus Charles I.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painting of architecture; portraits of Charles and Henrietta Maria at dinner; portraits of Frederick and (Charles"s sister) Elizabeth of Bohemia
Biographical notes: A court painter in the reign of Charles I.
Selected sources: Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1786, repr., London, 1871), p. 175.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Raewyn Passmore


Surname: Bassano
Forename: Francis
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Derbyshire
Occuptational description: herald painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1617
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Derbyshire Record Office, MS. RO#GB/NNAF/D95226 and #D582.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Batman, Bateman
Forename: Stephen
Origin: Somerset: Bruton
Place of work/residence: London and Surrey: St. Mary"s Newington
Occuptational description: clergyman, limner, author
Life dates: 1542-84
Work dates: 1570s to 1584
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Portrait of Matthew Parker
Biographical notes: Of Dutch immigrant parentage, Batman served as a member of the household of Archbishop Matthew Parker and then Henry Carey, baron Hunsdon. He may have worked as Parker"s chaplain, and did portray him. He also held the rectory of Newington, Surrey, a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury and very near to Parker"s base at Lambeth Palace. An energetic collector of books and manuscripts for Parker. He illustrated his own writings, which included a now lost treatise on limning and sundry other writings.
Selected sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Batman/Bateman, Stephen; M.B. Parkes, "Stephen Bateman's Manuscripts" in M. Kanno et al., eds., Medieval Heritage: Essays in honour of Tadahiro Ikegami (1997) pp. 125-126; E.J. Brockhurst, "The Life and Works of Stephen Batman", (unpublished MA thesis, London University, 1947).
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bathurst
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Oxfordshire: Oxford
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. 1647
Work dates: to d., 1647
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Portrait of Ralph Kettel, President of Trinity College Oxford
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive, painter files, vide Bathurst, George; Courtauld Institute, Witt Library, painters" files vide Bathurst, George, 15; Rachel Poole, ed. Catalogue of Printed Portraits in the Possession of the University, Colleges, City and County of Oxford (3 vols., Oxford Historical Society Publications, vols. 57, 1912; 81, 1926; and 82, 1926), III, p. 125; Christopher Wright, Catherine Gordon and Mary Peskett Smith, eds., British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections (New Haven and London, 2006), p. 88.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Raewyn Passmore


Surname: Baxter
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: limner
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1518
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited as a limner in a court case of 1518.
Selected sources: Peter W.M. Blayney, The Stationers" Company and the Printers of London, 1501-1557 (2 vols., Cambridge, 2013), p. 153.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Baxter
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Surrey: Southwark, St. Saviour"s
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1596
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Baxter is identified as a painter in the baptismal record of his daughter Mary, 14 October, 1596, at Southwark, St. Saviour"s .
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. P92/Sav/3001 at dates indicated.
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Baxter
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, 1615
Occuptational description: painter-stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1607, 1615
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Baxter is identified as a painter in the baptismal records of his sons, Daniel in 1607 and Johnin 1615, both at St. Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/002, (unpaginated; see by date).
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Baycocke
Forename: Daniel
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Yorkshire: York
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1629 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Freemanry of York, 1629.
Selected sources: Francis Collins, ed., Register of the Freemen of the City of York, 1559-1759, (1900) p. 78.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bayard, Bayarde
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1531-1533.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Worked on Whitehall and Westminster Palaces .
Biographical notes: Employed in the Royal Works, 1531, 1533.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 152; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 155, 163.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bayard
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Surrey: Kingston
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates: c. 1545-c. 1559
Work dates: c. 1545-c. 1559
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Work at Royal Banqueting House, 1551; a painting of a king with scriptures to Queen Elizabeth, 1559.
Biographical notes: Employed in the Royal Works, c. 1545-1551. This appears to be the William Bayard, painter, who gave Queen Elizabeth "a Table painted of a king with certeins scriptures" as a New Year's Gift in 1559, and received from her in turn a silver salt of 3 ounces.
Selected sources: Roy Strong, "More Tudor Artists", Burlington Magazine, 108 (1966) pp. 83-85, repr. in Strong, The Tudor and Stuart Monarchy, Pageantry, Painting, Iconography (3 vols., Woodbridge, 1995) I, p. 148; Jane A. Lawson, The Elizabethan New Year's Gift Exchanges, 1559-1603 (The British Academy, Oxford, 2013), items 59.215 and 59.439.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bayles
Forename: Nicklas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Warwickshire: Stratford-upon-Avon
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1599/1600
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Levi Fox, ed., Minutes and Accounts of the Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon, VI (Dugdale Society, 44, 2011) p. 56.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Baynes
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: stainer
Life dates: d.c. 1590s
Work dates: fl. 1582/1590s
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. CLA/002/01/001, fol. 94r.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Beaker
Forename: Powle
Origin: Alien
Place of work/residence: London: Dowgate Ward in 1582/3
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1582/3
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Attended the Dutch Church in 1582/3.
Selected sources: R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, eds., Return of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908), II, 267.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Beale, Bealle, Beele
Forename: Andreas, Adrian
Origin: Flemish
Place of work/residence: Surrey: Southwark: St. Olaves, in Nov., 1571.
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: b. 1517 or 1518
Work dates: In England 1568/9-1571 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Possible painter of a portrait of William Cecil at Hatfield House signed "AB".
Biographical notes: Came to England c. 1568 with wife and daughter. May be the same man as Adrian Beane (q.v.).
Selected sources: R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, eds., Return of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908), II, p. 102; Hope Walker, "Netherlandish Painters in Tudor London, 1560-1580", (unpublished MPhil thesis, Courtauld Institute, 2014, cited with kind permission of the author); Appendix 3, vide Beale .
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Hope Walker


Surname: Beamont, Beaumont, Beomaunt, Beaumond
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Alban Wood St. in 1612
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: will 1612
Work dates: cited 1578-79; d. c. 1612.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London; employed in the Revels, 1578/79. Beamont appeared as a defendant in the Court of Requests in 1594, and died in 1612.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. DL/C/B004/MS09171/022/80; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), pp. 288, 304; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 33.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Beare
Forename: Hans
Origin: Dutch
Place of work/residence: London: St. Nicholas Acon in 1568-71
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1568-71
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: 'Recorded as a Dutch painter living as an "inmate" with his wife and his fellow tenant Gylkinge Vantemsyken in the house of Thomas Adams, 1568.
Selected sources: R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, eds., Return of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908), III, 345.
Researched by: Hope Walker, Robert Tittler


Surname: Beare
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1531-1533.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Worked on Whitehall and Westminster Palaces.
Biographical notes: Employed in the Royal Works, 1531-3.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 152; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 155, 163.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Beck
Forename: David
Origin: Dutch: b. Delft
Place of work/residence: London from late 1630s -1641; Scotland (?)
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: 1621-1656
Work dates: fl. 1621-1656 (London from late 1630s -1641)
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Portrait of Thomas Hobbes
Biographical notes: Born in Delft, died in The Hague, but worked in London late 1630s to 1641, possibly for van Dyck. Admired by Charles I.
Selected sources: Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters (3rd ed., Woodbridge, 1988) p. 22; Christopher Wright, Catherine Gordon and Mary Peskett Smith, eds., British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections (New Haven and London, 2006), p. 92; Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 91; Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1786, repr., London, 1871), p. 174; Helen Smailes, ed., The Concise Catalogue of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Edinburgh, 1990), p. 386.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bedford
Forename: James
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1626 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Mr Robinson
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship with "Mr Robinson", 1626.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/21.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Bedill
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: [unknown]
Occuptational description: herald painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1509
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed in the Revels, 1509.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 152.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Beene
Forename: Adrian
Origin: Flemish
Place of work/residence: London: St. Olaves, Bridge Without, in May, 1571
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: in England 1568-71 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Beene" may be the same man as Adrian Beane (q.v.).
Selected sources: R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, eds., Return of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908), I, p. 470.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Hope Walker


Surname: Beeston, Beston
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Mary Woolnoth
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer, gilder
Life dates: will 1636
Work dates: fl. 1603-36
Master of: Edward Hutchen prior to 1626
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter-Stainers" Company of London, in which he was elected Upper Warden in 1625. He paid a fine to avoid Company office in 1629/30, and gave the Company a salter in 1636.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS005667/001/15; London Metropolitan Archives MS. DL/C/B004/MS09171/027/209 ; Alan Borg, The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), pp. 53, 210; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 34.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Michael Berlin


Surname: Belcamp, Belcome, Belcombe
Forename: Jan van, John
Origin: Dutch: Antwerp
Place of work/residence:
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: 1610-1653
Work dates: In London by 1624/5-d. 1653
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: The Great Picture" [The Clifford Family]; portraits of Edward, Prince of Wales; King Edward III, Ludwig XIII, Henrietta Maria, bishops Bancroft and Whitgift, etc.
Biographical notes: Belcamp worked in the shops of Cornelius Johnson and Anthony Van Dyck. He specialized in copying portraits; employed by Charles I and Lady Anne Clifford. Possibly a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1786, repr., London, 1871), pp. 184-5; John Ingamells, The English Episcopal Portrait, a Catalogue (1981) p. 111; Irene Scouloudi, ed., Returns of Strangers in the Metropolis 1593, 1627, 1635, 1639 (Huguenot Society of London, quarto series, vol. 52, 1985), p. 246; London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/28; Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997) p. 93; Christopher Wright, Catherine Gordon and Mary Peskett Smith, eds., British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections (New Haven and London, 2006), p. 95; Stefanie Kollmann, Niederlandische Kunstler und Kunst im London des 17. Jahrhunderts, (Hildesheim, Zurich; New York, 2000), pp. 151-52; Karen Hearn, Van Dyck & Britain (2009), p. 154.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Robert Tittler


Surname: Belford, Bellford
Forename: Mark
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Surrey: Southwark: St. Olave"s in 1607; Westminster in 1612.
Occuptational description: limner, "picture-maker"
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1607, 1612
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Identified as a "picture-maker" in the burial record of his daughter Mary in 1607, and as a limner to Prince Henry in 1612. The first reference has him living in Southwark, St. Olave"s, but by 1612 he is listed as residing at Westminster.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), 152; Parish Registers of St. Olave’s Church Southwark, 1583-1627, London Metropolitan Archives MS. P71/OLA/009, (see by date).
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Bell
Forename: [unknown]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Oxfordshire: Woodstock
Occuptational description: the painter"
Life dates:
Work dates: Received payment, 1609
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Paid for painting work at "the hall", 1609.
Selected sources: Marjorie Maslen, ed., Woodstock Chamberlains" Accounts, 1609-1650 (Oxfordshire Record Society, 58, 1993), p. 6.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bell
Forename: Christopher
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: art master"
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1634
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Listed as an "art master" at Bridewell Hospital, July, 1634.
Selected sources: Bridewell Hospital Court Minute Book, Bethlem Royal Hospital MS. Bcb 08, fol. 5v.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bell, Belle
Forename: John, Johannes
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter-stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1504, 1506
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bell is noted in a grant and confirmation of property, 1504; worked with Torrigiano on the tomb of Henry VII.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS.CLC/PA/G/012/MS05670/13; Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1786, repr., 1871), p. 65.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bell
Forename: Johannes
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Yorkshire: York
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1594/5 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the freemanry of the City of York, 1594/5.
Selected sources: Francis Collins, ed., Register of the Freemen of the City of York, 1559-1759 (1900), p. 38.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bell
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Berkshire: Abingdon
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d c. 1627
Work dates: to d., c. 1627
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bell had left possessions worth only £ 5 6s 8d at his death in 1627, but had run his own workshop.
Selected sources: Berkshire Record Office MS. D/A1/177/001.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bell
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury
Occuptational description: freeman painter
Life dates:
Work dates: 1627/8 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bell is identified as a painter when he was licensed to marry, in Canterbury, 1635
Selected sources: Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury, Kent, MS. CC FA-23 f. 365v; J.M.. Cowper, ed., The Roll of the Freemen of the City of Canterbury from 1392 to 1800 (Canterbury, 1903), col. 172; J.M. Cowper, ed., Canterbury Marriage Licenses, second series, 1618-1660 (Canterbury, 1894). column 88.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bell
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Norfolk: Thetford and/or Hockham
Occuptational description: painter, stainer, gilder, and mason
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1528-1532 and possibly to 1541.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Various decorative painting work in Thetford priory and in village of Hockham, Norfolk.
Biographical notes: Bell painted various cloths and other objects in Thetford Priory of Thetford and the village of Hockham, c. 1528-early 1530s.
Selected sources: David Dymond, ed., The Register of Thetford Priory. Pt.2, 1518-1540 (Norfolk Record Society, 60, 1996), pp. 544, 560, 561, 590 (n. 1056), 607, 608, 609.
Researched by: Andrea Kirkham


Surname: Bellin, Bellen
Forename: Edward
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cheshire: Chester
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1650
Work dates: fl. 1634-1650
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Randle Holme I (1624 ff.)
Recorded work: Portrait of an [unknown] man said to be of the family of Edwards of Rhual, of which a photograph survives in the painters" files of the Heinz Archives, National Portrait Gallery.
Biographical notes: Bellin apprenticed with Randle Holme the elder of Chester (q.v.) from 1524, and then served as his journeyman until he was admitted freeman of Painter-Stainers, Glaziers, Embroiderers, and Stationers" Company of Chester, 1634. He employed Thomas Leigh the elder (q.v.) as his journeyman in 1642 and 1643, and Leigh"s son and namesake (q.v.) in 1642.
Selected sources: National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive, painter files, vide Bellin/Bellen, Edward; Chester Record Office, MS. ZG 17/2 (unpaginated; see by date) and MS. Z CR 63/2/131 fol. 29r. ; Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 95.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Raewyn Passmore


Surname: Bellin, Belling, Bellini, da Modena, Moden
Forename: Nicolo, Nicholas
Origin: Italian: Modena
Place of work/residence: Middlesex; Westminster: St. Margaret"s 1532-33; 1537-68
Occuptational description: painter, carver, sculptor
Life dates: c. 1490-1569.
Work dates: fl. 1516-69; in England 1532-33; 1537-69.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Extensive work at Whitehall, 1532, c. 1537-1541, and Nonsuch Palace (1541-45); heraldry for the funeral of, and then collaboration on the tomb monument of, Henry VIII, and on royal portrait of Henry II of France; various work for the Revels tempus Edward VI. Bellin continued to work throughout this time, producing tomb monuments for William Pownsett in Barking, Essex, and possibly for Bishop Stephen Gardiner"s chantry chapel and the tomb of Thomas Mason at Winchester Cathedral. He presented Queen Elizabeth with a small portrait of Henry VIII"s fool Patch.
Biographical notes: A native of Modena, Bellin worked as a painter briefly in Englnd in 1532, and returned in 1537. He had by that time also worked in France (including Fontainebleau) 1515-1522 and 1533-1537, and in Mantua before coming to England from Fontainbleau in 1537. He was very skilled and highly sought after in both France and England for his work as a carver in stone (including slate) and stucco, painter, and designer. He worked at the King"s Works for much of his time in England, serving, inter alia, as a principal craftsman at Nonsuch from 1541-1544, where he was engaged in painting, carving, gilding, varnishing. He also produced tomb monuments for William Pownsett in Barking, Essex, and possibly for Bishop Stephen Gardiner"s chantry chapel and the tomb of Thomas Mason in Winchester Cathedral. In 1562 he presented Queen Elizabeth with a painting--presumably by his own hand--of Patch, Henry VIII"s fool. Bellin gained denization in 1541, and had an earlier annuity of £ 11 increased to £ 21 at that time. He was expelled from Westminster in a dispute, probably concerning his Roman Catholic religion , in 1551. The expulsion was reversed by the Privy Council, and then the reversal challenged in the Court of Requests in 1556/7. In the end, he was allowed to be buried at St. Margaret"s Westminster.
Selected sources: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 17, 19, 155-6, 189; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 177-8; Roy Strong, "More Tudor Artists", Burlington Magazine, 108 (1966) pp. 83-85, repr. in Strong, The Tudor and Stuart Monarchy, Pageantry, Painting, Iconography (3 vols., Woodbridge, 1995) I, p. 151; Martin Biddle, "Nonsuch, Henry VIII's Mirror for a Prince: Sources and Interpretation", in Cinzia Maria Sicca and Louis A. Waldman, eds., The Anglo-Florentine Renaissance, Art for the early Tudors, (London and New Haven, 2012), pp. 319, 325-8; British Library Royal MS. 14B.IV.A; John Dent, The Quest for Nonsuch (1962), pp. 49-50, 283-84.; Jane A. Lawson, ed., The Elizabethan New Year's Gift Exchanges 1559-1603, (The British Academy, Oxford, 2013), item 62.177; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 143.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Mark Girouard


Surname: Bendys
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Blythborough
Occuptational description: stainer, painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1523
Master of:
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Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited in an action of debt in the Court of Common Pleas, 1523
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/1038/669d.
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Benet
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Norfolk: Thetford: Bridgate Ward
Occuptational description: stainer and glazier
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1521-26
Master of:
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Recorded work: Benet stained cloths for the parlour and glazed an angel, Thetford priory
Biographical notes: Benet stained cloths for the parlour and glazed an angel at Thetford Priory in the early 1520s.
Selected sources: David Dymond, ed., The Register of Thetford Priory, pt. 2, 1518- 1540 (Norfolk Record Society, 60, 1996), 754.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bennet, Bennett
Forename: Andrew
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Surrey: Southwark, St. Saviour"s c. 1615-1650
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1615-1650
Master of:
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Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bennett is identified as a painter in the baptisms of sons Peter, 12 Feb., 1617; Thomas, 27 June, 1624; Andrew, 9 Feb., 1633; another Andrew 3 March, 1639; a third Andrew, 3 Dec., 1643; Benjamin, 11 Feb.,1646, and daughters Alice, 14 July, 1622; Elizabeth, 4 Feb., 1640; Hannah, 30 Jan., 1630; Sarah, 29 March, 1650, are all recorded at Southwark, St. Saviour"s.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. P92/Sav/3002 at dates indicated.
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Bennet, Benet
Forename: Guy
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: Fleet Street
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer, gilder, painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1527, 1535, 1537, 1554.
Master of:
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Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London. Employed in the Royal Works, 1527. Cited in an action for debt in the Court of Common Pleas, 1535 and again in 1554.
Selected sources: Susan Foister, "Foreigners at Court: Holbein, Van Dyck, and the Painter-Stainers" Company", in David Howarth, ed., Art and Patronage in the Caroline Court, Essays in Honour of Sir Oliver Millar (Cambridge, 1993) p. 43; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), 152; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 156-7; Alan Borg , The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 196; The National Archives CP 40/1084/1524f and 2593f.; CP 40/1157/1262f.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Bennet, Benet
Forename: Humphrey
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cheshire: Chester
Occuptational description: journeyman painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1629-30
Master of:
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Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed as a journeyman painter to Randle Holme the elder of Chester (q.v.) , 1629-1630.
Selected sources: Chester Record Office, MS. ZG 17/2, (unpaginated; see by date).
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bennett
Forename: Hugh
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter and herald painter
Life dates: d. c. 1590s.
Work dates: fl. 1581-1593/4
Master of:
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Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Joined with Samuel Thompson in 1593 in a petition to Lord Burghley asking for privileged access to do heraldic work for Clarenceux King of Arms.
Selected sources: J.H. Parker Oxspring, "The Painter-Stainers and their Dispute with the Heralds", (3 parts, typescript, College of Arms MS. Her/BH, no date) Part I, p. 25; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 153; Historical Manuscripts Commission, Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Hon. Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House, IV, (1892), pp. 459-60.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bennet, Benett
Forename: Nicholas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cambridgeshire: Bassingbourne
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1522/3
Master of:
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Recorded work: Painted a St. George figure for Bassingbourne parish church.
Biographical notes: Bennet painted a St. George figure for Bassingbourne parish church in 1522/3 for £ 2 4s.
Selected sources: David Dymond, ed., The Churchwardens" Book of Bassingbourne, Cambridgeshire, 1496-1544 (Cambridge Record Society 17, 2004) p. 124.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bennett
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1625
Work dates: fl. to 1623 or 1625
Master of:
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Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, and fined for refusing office in that Company in 1625. Though he remained an active member of the Company, he may not have worked as a painter, but rather as a merchant.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/15; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 34.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bennett
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1552
Master of:
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Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed in the Revels, 1552/3.
Selected sources: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Revels at Court in the time of King Edward VI and Queen Mary (Louvain, 1914), 101.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Benninck, Benninc, Benning, Bening
Forename: Simon
Origin: Alien: Ghent and/or Bruges
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: miniaturist/ limner
Life dates: 1483-1561
Work dates: In England from 1520s-d., 1561.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Genealogical trees; self-portrait.
Biographical notes: Simon was the son of the Flemish painter Alexander Bening, he was also the father of Levina Teerlinc.
Selected sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Teerlinck, Levina; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 153; Friedrich Winkler, Die Flamische Buchmalerei des XV und XVI Jahrhunderts (Leipsig, 1925) pp. 139-149.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Hope Walker


Surname: Bennys
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent; Boughton under Blean
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1521
Master of:
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Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited in an action of debt in the Court of Common Pleas, 1521.
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/1031/1260f
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Benson
Forename: John, Jan
Origin: Alien: Bruges
Place of work/residence: London: St. Dunstan"s, Tower Ward
Occuptational description: painter, "picture-maker", "painter upon tables"
Life dates: c. 1530-1573
Work dates: In England 1564-d., 1573.
Master of:
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Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Son of the Bruges painter Ambrosias Benson, Jan came to England from Antwerp in 1564. He was denizened in March, 1567, and lived in Portsoken Ward in 1568 and Tower Ward by 1571. He and his wife Tannykin had seven children by 1571.
Selected sources: R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, eds., Return of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908) II, p. 131; III, p. 377; Stefanie Kollmann, Niederlandische Kunstler und Kunst im London des 17. Jahrhunderts, (Hildesheim, Zurich; New York, 2000) pp. 152-53; Hope Walker, "Netherlandish Painters in Tudor London, 1560-1580", (unpublished MPhil thesis, Courtauld Institute, 2014, cited with kind permission of the author); Appendix 3, vide Benson .
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Hope Walker


Surname: Bentham, Benthan, Bentheim, Benton
Forename: Martin van
Origin: Dutch: Emden
Place of work/residence: London: Blackfriars in 1617
Occuptational description: painter, glass painter
Life dates: In England from 1595
Work dates: fl. In England c. 1595-d. 1619.
Master of:
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Recorded work: Portraits of Prince Charles (1608); the duke of York; designs for stained glass and other painting work at Hatfield and also decoratve or figurative painting for Prince Henry at St James"s Palace for £ 40 in 1612.
Biographical notes: Bentham came to London in or about 1595 and received a patent of denization in May, 1607. He was perhaps first identified as a painter in the baptismal record of his daughter Mary in the Dutch Church, October, 1605, but is known to have received commissions for decorative and figurative painting soon thereafter. He did a portrait of Prince Charles (1608) and the duke of York shortly thereafter; designs for stained glass and other painting work at Hatfield (1609/10) and also decorative or figurative painting for Prince Henry at St James"s Palace for £ 40 in 1612. He appears in the returns of aliens in 1609, 1611, and 1617, but was well established as a painter even by the first of those dates.
Selected sources: R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, eds., Return of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908). , III, 146, 160, 176-7; Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 96; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 153; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 178.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bentheim, Bent
Forename: Nicholas
Origin: Dutch
Place of work/residence: London : St Bride Fleet Street in 1571
Occuptational description: glass painter
Life dates: c. 1533-d.c. 1581
Work dates: fl. c. 1570-81
Master of:
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Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bentheim witnessed the will of the Dutch painter Jacob Matheeuson (q.v.) in 1570, receiving a picture in the will for his troubles. He was described as a glazier in the Return of Aliens of 1571, and as having come to England in 1567 as a religious refugee.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 34.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Benwyn
Forename: Dafydd
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Wales: Glamorganshire
Occuptational description: Welsh bard and heraldic painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1570s-1590s
Master of:
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Recorded work: Three known illuminated pedigree rolls.
Biographical notes: Benwyn was primarily a poet in the bardic tradition, but is known to have done at least three illustrated pedigree rolls for Welsh gentry.
Selected sources: Michael Powell Siddons, Welsh Pedigree Rolls (Aberystwyth, 1996), pp. 7, 28-29.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Berrison, Barreston
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Katherine Cree
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: b.c. 1593- post 1618
Work dates: cited 1618
Master of:
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Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Berrison is identified as a painter in his marriage license of 1618, and was sprobably living in St. Botolph without Bishopsgate at that time.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 34.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Beresford
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Leicestershire: Leicester
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1634/35
Master of:
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Recorded work: Painting work at St. Martin's Leicester, 1634/35
Biographical notes: In preparation for the impending visit of Charles I, the chamberlains of Leicester paid Beresford and "Harrison" (q.v.) for painting the King"s Arms and all the pillars supporting the church porch of St. Martin's Leicester, for a total of £ 7 2d. Two years later Beresford and Harrison received a small sum for painting the bottom part of the church loft, such a small sum (22 s) suggesting that they were local men and not brought in from elsewhere.
Selected sources: Thomas North, ed., The Accounts of the Churdhwardens of St. Martin's Leicester (Leicester, 1884), pp. 186, 188.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Besamia
Forename: Mr
Origin: Dutch
Place of work/residence: Westminster: St.- Martin-in-the-Fields in 1639
Occuptational description: limner
Life dates:
Work dates: London 1638/9
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Irene Scouloudi, ed., Returns of Strangers Dwelling in the Metropolis 1593, 1627, 1635, 1639 (Huguenot Society of London, quarto Series, 58, 1985), p. 247.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Best
Forename: Caleb
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter and gilder
Life dates: d. 1627
Work dates: fl. 1602-1627
Master of:
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Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Best appears in the parish records of St. Giles Cripplegate, St. Michael Cornhill, St. Botolph without Aldgate, and St. Dunstant in the East. No record of his work as a painter has survived.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 34-5.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Beston, see Beeston
Forename:
Origin:
Place of work/residence:
Occuptational description:
Life dates:
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Biographical notes:
Selected sources:
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Surname: Beswell
Forename: [unknown]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Norfolk: Norwich
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1583-84
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted the dragon for a pageant play, 1583-84
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: David Galloway, ed., Records of Early English Drama, Norwich, 1540-1642 (Toronto, 1984) p. 2.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bettelsham
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Greenwich
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1527
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed at Greenwich in Royal Works, 1527
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 153.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bettes
Forename: Edward
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Dover
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: b. c. 1615
Work dates: cited 1639, 1640
Master of:
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Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bettes signed bonds for marriage licenses in 1639 and 1640, the former noting he was about 24 years old in that year.
Selected sources: J.M. Cowper, ed., Canterbury Marriage Licenses, second series, 1618-1660 (Canterbury, 1894), columns 96, 562.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bettes
Forename: John I
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London and Westminster
Occuptational description: painter, limner, carver in wood
Life dates: d. c. 1570 or 1576
Work dates: fl. c.1531-c. 1570 or 1576.
Master of:
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Recorded work: Designed title page borders for books; signed portrait of "Man in a Black Cap"; alleged portraits of Henry VIII and others of the court circle including Sir William Cavendish and Sir William Buttes the younger; also painted miniatures.
Biographical notes: Bettes appears to have begun his career in 1531-33 by working in the Royal Works on Whitehall Palace, but by the time he painted the signed and sophisticated portrait of the "Man in a Black Cap", he had reportedly worked in Holbein"s studio and learned a lot from that master: his work seems closely related to Holbein"s. Like Holbein, he worked in several media, doing the woodcut title page of Edward Halle"s Chronicle (1550), and William Cunningham"s Cosmographical Glasse (1559), as well as other portraits. He may well be a member of the Bettes family of Kent, in which there were also painters of that era, and is probably the father of John Bettes II (q.v.).
Selected sources: Jane Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art (34 vols.,1996); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Bettes, John; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 153; Karen Hearn, Nathaniel Bacon, Artist, Gentleman and Gardener (2005), p. 46; Mary Edmond, ""Limners and Picturemakers", New Light on the Lives of Miniaturists and Large-scale Portrait Painters working in London in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", Walpole Society 47 (1978-80) p. 67; Roy Strong, The English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture (London, 1969), pp. 65-68; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , p. 156; Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 97; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 35.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bettes
Forename: John II
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, St. Gregeory, and Grub Street (1599).
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer, limner, picture-maker
Life dates: d. 1615/16
Work dates: fl. 1570-1615/16
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Nicholas Hilliard (?)
Recorded work: Possible painter of portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, in National Maritime Museum, and also signed portraits (as I.B. or I.B.F.) of John Lonyson (1565), a member of the Tyrell Family (1575), Daniel Bedenham (1575), a gentlemen of the Woore Family (1587), an "Unknown Elderly Lady", and Richard Madox of All Souls College, Oxford (1582) for which he receeived but 12s.
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, Bettes II was employed in the Revels , 1578/9, in which he wil have done decorative painting. He also did numerous portraits of gentry, though none of them so far as is known of the court circle. Having received but 12s for his portrait of Thomas Madox of Oxford in 1582, he must have been a painter of modest means and reputation, probably leaning on his association with his namesake and probable father, John I. Unlike the latter, he appears not to have worked in other media.
Selected sources: Jane Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art (34 vols.,1996); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Bettes, John; National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive, Painters" files, vide Bettes, John; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 154; Karen Hearn, Nathaniel Bacon, Artist, Gentleman and Gardener (2005), p. 47; Roy Strong, The English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture (London, 1969), pp. 65-68; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), p. 288; Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 97; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) pp. 35-6.

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Surname: Bettes
Forename: John III
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. c. 1660
Work dates: fl. 1616-60
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: This third John Bettes is the son of John Bettes II (q.v.) , but seems not to have matched the professional success of either his father or grand-father (q.v.).
Selected sources: Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 97.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bettes
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1598
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Possibly the brother of John Bettes II, Thomas is recorded as a painter-stainer in Francis Meres"s Palladis Tamia (1598), and in a petition regarding the quality of smalt provided by a merchant to the painters" trade.
Selected sources: Francis Meres, Palladis Tamia (1598), also known as Wits Common Wealth the Second Part (STC.17835), p. 636; Daphne Foskett, ed., A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters (1972), p. 164; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 36.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bettis
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Rochester
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1527
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited in an action for trespass, Court of Common Pleas, 1527.
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/1055/482d.
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Betts, Bettes
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury: Northgate Ward
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. 1571
Work dates: fl. 1561-71
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: From 1560/1-1570/71 Betts is recorded as having paid an annual fee for being allowed to work and trade in Canterbury. He Left in his will four tubs, perhaps for mixing pigments.
Selected sources: Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury, Kent, MS. CC FA 16-17, passim; Kent Study Centre, Maidstone, MS. PRC/10/6, fol. 90; J.M. Cowper, ed., Intrantes; A List of Persons Admitted to Live and Trade within the City of Canterbury,1392-1592 (Canterbury, 1904), columns 215-221.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Beuckelaer, Buckler
Forename: Daniel
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St.-Giles-in-the-Fields
Occuptational description: picturemaker
Life dates: d. 1625
Work dates: d. 1625
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Identified as a picturemaker in his will of 15 September, 1625, Beuckelaer was the son of the Antwerp painter Huybrecht Beuckelaer who became known as Hubbert (q.v.) once settled in England.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 36
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Beuckelaer, Buckler; see Hubbert
Forename: Huybrecht
Origin: Alien: Dutch: Antwerp


Surname: Bicknall, Bygnalle
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter, herald painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1527-32
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: worked under John Brown.
Recorded work: Painting at Greenwich
Biographical notes: Bicknall was employed in the Royal Works 1527; and he worked in John Brown"s workshop at Brown"s death in 1532. Brown willed him some tools of the trade including at least three books of arms, suggesting that he worked in heraldic paintings and also, perhaps, in other aspects of the trade.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 154; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 156-157; .
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bidgwell, see Bridgewell
Forename:
Origin:
Place of work/residence:
Occuptational description:
Life dates:
Work dates:
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources:
Researched by:


Surname: Bigg
Forename: Eustace, Ewstace
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1527
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted at Greenwich
Biographical notes: Employed in the Royal Works, 1527.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 154; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 156-7.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bignell
Forename: Lawrence
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Wiltshire: Marlborough
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1583
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted parts of the Marlborough Guildhall, 1583
Biographical notes: Bignell is not otherwise identified, but he received six shillings for painting parts of the Marlborough guildhall on 15 November 1583.
Selected sources: Marlborough Chamaberlains"s accounts, 1572-1640, Wiltshire Record Office MS. G22/1/203/2, (unpaginated, see by date).
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bilford, Beckfordt
Forename: Mark
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: miniaturist
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1610-11
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters (3rd ed., Woodbridge, 1988), p. 26; Daphne Foskett, ed., A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters (1972) p. 167
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Billingsley
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Gloucstershire: Bristol
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1611 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: George Wall of Caerlean, Monmouthshire, 1611/12
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the freemanry of Bristol, 1611.
Selected sources: I. Fitzroy Jones, ed., Abstract of the Apprentice Books of the City of Bristol, 1600-1630 (Bristol, 1936), p. 294; Bristol and Avon Family History Society, Bristol Burgess Index, II , 1607-1651 (2003) vide Billingsly.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Binning
Forename: David
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1567-1569
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Worked at St. Giles, Edinburgh, 1567
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), p. 26
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Binning
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland: Edinburgh
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. c. 1633 or after
Work dates: fl. 1617-1633
Master of: John Marshall, to 1630
Apprentices & journeymen: John Sawers the elder, 1610-1618
Recorded work: Decorative painting at Linlithgow, Stirling Castle, etc.
Biographical notes: John Binning and Valentine Jenkin (q.v.) received payment for transporting painting supplies and themselves on three horses from Edinburgh to Stirling in May, 1617; in March 1628/9 he and James Warkman (q.v.) received £ 240 for painting the King"s rooms at Linlithgow Palace; and in July, 1633 he received £ 80 plus £ 11 for painting work at Stirling Castle.
Selected sources: Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), p. 27; John Imrie and John G. Duncan eds., The Accounts of the Masters of Works for Building and Repairing Royal Palaces and Castles, II, 1616-1649 (Edinburgh, 1982), pp. 77, 269, 369.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Binning
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland: Edinburgh
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1538-1547
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painting at Holyroodhouse, 1538
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), p. 27
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Binning
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland: Edinburgh
Occuptational description: painter; glasswright
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1563-pre-1586
Master of: William Pinkerton, to 1586
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Tollbooth and Council House, Edinburgh
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), pp. 25-26.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Binning
Forename: Walter
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland: Edinburgh
Occuptational description: painter, glasswright, decorative arts contractor
Life dates: c. 1520-1594
Work dates: fl. c. 1540-84
Master of: Richard Binning, to 1583
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Extensive decorative painting and glasswork in Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland
Biographical notes: Binnings was the principal painter for ceremonial events and plays in mid-sixteenth century Edinburgh, and he painted in Edinburgh churches as well.
Selected sources: Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), pp. 28-30; Sarah Carpenter, "Walter Binning: Decorative and Theatrical Painter", Medieval English Theatre, 10: 1 (1988) pp. 17-25; Anon., Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh, IV, 1573-1589 (Edinburgh, 1882), pp. 282, 350, 348, 354 .
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Binks, Bynks, Bincks
Forename: Edward
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Yorkshire: York
Occuptational description: painter, deputy herald, herald painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1586 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Binks first comes to light when he apprenticed his son to a York baker, 1586. He was subsequently appointed deputy herald for Yorkshire in July, 1600 and again, for 3 years, in August, 1612. He was the object of a complaint by William Smith, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, in 1609 for painting heraldic devices illicitly in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire under the direction of the "counterfeit herald" William Dakin.
Selected sources: Francis Collins, ed., Register of the Freemen of the City of York, 1559-1759, (1900), p. 28; Anthony Wagner and George Squibb, "deputy heralds", in Frederick Emmison and Roy Stephens, eds., Tribute to an Antiquary: Essays Presented to Marc Fitch by Some of his Friends (London, 1976), p. 234, 249, 253; William Smith, "A Brief Discourse of the Causes of Discord..", Folger Shakespeare Library MS. V.a. 157, fol. 12v-13r.; Ann Payne, "William Smith, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant: Appendix", in Nigel Ramsay, ed., Heralds and Heraaldry in Shakespeare"s England, (Donington, 2014), p. 62.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Birch
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cheshire: Chester
Occuptational description: journeyman painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1626
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Birch worked as a journeyman painter to Robert Thorneley (q.v.) of Chester, 1626.
Selected sources: Chester Record Office, MS. ZG 17/2, (unpaginated; see by date).
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bird, Byrde, Byrd
Forename: John
Origin: Buckinghamshire: Slapton
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d.c. 1580.
Work dates: fl. 1546-c. 1580.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Thomes Prior, to 1546
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London, 1546, Bird served as Company Warden, 1580.
Selected sources: Charles Welch, ed., Register of Freemen in the City of London in the Reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI (London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 1908) p. 2; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 156; Alan Borg , The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 196; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bird, Byrde
Forename: John I
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: Old Change, St. Augustin
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: will 1607
Work dates: fl. c. 1552-d. 1607
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, Bird remained an active member of the Company, serving as Renter Warden in 1578 and leaving it a legacy of £ 2 in his will of 1607. He was employed in the Revels, 1578-9, but appears to have become infirm towards the end of his life.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives, MS. DL/AL/C/001/MS09050/004/324v.; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), p. 322; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p 37.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bird, Byrd
Forename: John II
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate in 1614.
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1614, fl. to post 1625.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: John Bird, who does not appear to be the son of John Bird I (q.v.), is identified as a painter in the baptismal record of his daugther Martha, October, 1614, at St. Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/002, (unpaginated; see by date), and MS CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001, fol. 12.
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Bird
Forename: Philip
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1617
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Metal streamers for the Vintners" Company, 1617/18
Biographical notes: Bird received £ 13 for making two metal streamers for the Vintners" Company in 1617/18, the large sum suggesting that he was either very well known--which is doubtful as no other records of his work have been found--or they were large objects.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 37.
Researched by:


Surname: Bird
Forename: Ralph, Rafe
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Andrew"s Holborn
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1618
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bird is identified as a painter in the burial record of his son John at St. Andrew"s Holborn, 1618.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 37.
Researched by:


Surname: Birth
Forename: Sowerby
Origin: Dutch
Place of work/residence: London: Farringdon Without in 1635.
Occuptational description: limner
Life dates:
Work dates: in London 1635
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: In 1635 he was recorded as having a Dutch wife, two London-born children, and two servants, and so must have come to England as a fairly young adult and have done well enough to have servants.
Selected sources: Irene Scouloudi, ed., Returns of Strangers in the Metropolis 1593, 1627, 1635, 1639 (Huguenot Society of London, quarto series, vol. 52, 1985), p. 248.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bishop
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: [unknown]
Occuptational description: herald painter
Life dates: early 17th c.
Work dates: early 17th c.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bishop owned a book of heraldic drawings now in the Society of Antiquaries" Library.
Selected sources: Society of Antiquaries of London, MSS. 462 and 468.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Bishop
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1632
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, Bishop acted as an informer on a Company search in 1632.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/84.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bishop, see also Byshoppe


Surname: Blaber
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Botolph"s Aldgate in 1587.
Occuptational description: painter, painter-stainer, Leatherseller
Life dates: 1527- 1587.
Work dates: c. late 1540s - d., 1587.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: various decorative painting at St. Botolph"s Aldgate
Biographical notes: Blaber was a member of the Leathersellers" Company of London, but worked as a painter and painter-stainer. He was noted as a householder and painter, and also as a man who had long been ill, at his death in 1587.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. P69/BOT2/A/002/MS09221, vide 28 January, 1584, 6 February, 1586, and 25 November, 1587.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Hope Walker


Surname: Blackborne
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1599
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Blackborne was identified as a painter in a pardon roll of 1599.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 37.
Researched by:


Surname: Blackborne, Blackburne
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1559, 1574-75
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A decorative painter, Blackborne worked at Longleat in 1559 and was employed in the Revels, 1574/5.
Selected sources: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), p. 231; personal communication from Malcolm Airs.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Malcom Airs


Surname: Blackbourne
Forename: "Mr"
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cheshire: Chester
Occuptational description: journeyman painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1640
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: He was employed as a journeyman painter by Daniel King of Chester, 1640.
Selected sources: Chester Record Office, MS. ZG 17/2 (unpaginated, see by date).
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Blackit
Forename: [Unknown]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland: [Edinburgh?]
Occuptational description: the painter"
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1631
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Blackit was cited as a painter in a letter from Duncan Campbell of Edinburgh, to his uncle, the laird of Glenurquhay.
Selected sources: National Records of Scotland GB 234/ GD 112/39/42/24. Papers of the Campbell Family of Breadalbane.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Blackmore
Forename: Arthur
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter; possibly herald painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1634-37
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Blackmore was cited in 1634-37 amongst the defendants in a case brought in the Court of Chivalry by the King of Arms against the Painter-Stainers of London, concerning the right of the latter to undertake heraldic painting without permission of the former.
Selected sources: Richard Cust and Andrew Hopper, eds., "Court of Chivalry" web site: www.court-of-chivalry.bham.ac.uk , no. 348, King of Arms v. Painter-Stainers" Company of London.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Blackmore, Blakemore
Forename: Walter
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Martin in the Vintry in 1593
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1593
Work dates: to d., 1593, or shortly before.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: The National Archives, PROB 11/82/368.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Blackmore, Blakemore, Blackamore
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Margaret"s Lothbury
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1557
Work dates: fl. c. 1527-1557
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, he was employed at the Revels in 1527.
Selected sources: Alan Borg , The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 196; Susan Foister, "Foreigners at Court: Holbein, Van Dyck, and the Painter-Stainers" Company", in David Howarth, ed., Art and Patronage in the Caroline Court, Essays in Honour of Sir Oliver Millar (Cambridge, 1993) p. 44; London Metropolitan Archives, DL/AL/C/002/MS9051/002/180; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 37.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Blackwell
Forename: Edward
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1623/24
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/3.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Blaikie
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland: Edinburgh
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: 1618 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Blaikie became a freeman painter of Edinburgh, 1618, by patrimony of his father-in-law, the painter John Sawers the elder (q.v.).
Selected sources: Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), p. 30
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Blamer
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. 1585
Work dates: to 1585
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Blamer was indicted for murder and sentenced to be hanged in January, 1585.
Selected sources: J.S. Cockburn, ed., Calendar of Assize Records, Essex Indictgments, Elizabeth I (1978), item 1537, p. 263..
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Blande
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: painter-stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1551
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Work at Royal Banqueting House, 1551
Biographical notes: Employed in the Royal Works, 1551.
Selected sources: Roy Strong, "More Tudor Artists", Burlington Magazine, 108 (1966) pp. 83-85, repr. in Strong, The Tudor and Stuart Monarchy, Pageantry, Painting, Iconography (3 vols., Woodbridge, 1995) I, p. 148.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Blankston, Blaksetone, Blancstede, Blaynstoow
Forename: Henry, Harry
Origin: Alien: b. Cologne
Place of work/residence: Westminster: St. Martin "s-in-the Fields, Charing Cross, 1522; Surrey: Southwark, St. Mary Magdalene at death in 1541.
Occuptational description: painter, gilder
Life dates: d. 1541
Work dates: fl. 1506-41.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Work at Hampton Court; St Lawrence, Reading in 1505/06.
Biographical notes: First mentioned in 1505/6 when he painted the figures of Saints Mary and John and gilded the rood in the church of Reading, St. Lawrence, Berkshire, Blankston was later employed in the Royal Works at Hampton Court in the 1530s. He worked there with the plasterer and painter Robert Shynk (q.v.). His will mentions painters John Brown(e), Andrew Wright (q.v.) , and John Hethe (q.v.) . He was the father-in-law of the glazier Garrard or Gerard Hone (q.v.) , to whom he left his painting supplies. He also gave a triptych of the Virgin with two saints to his parish church of St. Mary Magdalene, Southwark.
Selected sources: Joan Dils, ed., Reading St. Lawrence Churchwardens" Accounts, 1498-1570 (Berkshire Record Society, 19, 2013) p. 30; Susan Foister, "Foreigners at Court: Holbein, Van Dyck, and the Painter-Stainers" Company", in David Howarth, ed., Art and Patronage in the Caroline Court, Essays in Honour of Sir Oliver Millar (Cambridge, 1993) p. 38; The National Archives, PROB 11/28/629; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 155; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 156; L.F. Salzman, Building in England Down to 1540: A Documentary History (Oxford, 1952; 1997), p. 165; Simon Thurley, The Royal Palaces of Tudor England, Architecture and Court Life, 1460-1547 (London and New Haven, 1993), p. 106; H.M. Colvin, et al., The History of the King"s Works (7 vols., 1963-82) , IV, 25, 133, 135..
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Blessing, Blessinge
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cheshire: Chester
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. post 1650
Work dates: fl. . 1632-d. post 1650.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers, Glaziers, Embroiderers, and Stationers" Company of Chester, 1632.
Selected sources: Chester Record Office, MS. ZG 17/2, (unpaginated; see by date).
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Blijenberch, Blyenberch , Van Blijenberch
Forename: Abraham van
Origin: Alien: Dutch: Antwerp
Place of work/residence: Westminster: St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: 1575/6-d. 1624
Work dates: In England 1617-1621 or "22
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Portraits of William Herbert, third earl of Pembroke; Robert Kerr, first earl of Ancram; Ben Jonson; Count Gondomar; Prince Charles; and others; history painting of "Jacob and Esau; tapestry design for "The Month of december" for the prince of wales in 1620 at £ 40; ".
Biographical notes: Blijenberch worked for only a few years carrying out history paintings and portraits in England at the highest level of patronage, before returning to Antwerp c. 1622 where he died in 1624. An innovator in his use of colour and of shadow, he was well patronized by members of the English aristocracy and associated with other Dutch painters including Paul Van Somer (q.v.) and Daniel Mytens (q.v.) .
Selected sources: Christopher Brown, "British Paintings and the Low Countries, 1530-1630", in Karen Hearn, ed., Dynasties, Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England, 1530-1630 (1995), p. 27; Karen Hearn, Nathaniel Bacon, Artist, Gentleman and Gardener (2005), p. 204; Heinz Archive, painters" files, vide Blijenberch; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Bleyenberch, Abraham van; Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 101; Stefanie Kollmann, Niederlandische Kunstler und Kunst im London des 17. Jahrhunderts, (Hildesheim, Zurich; New York, 2000), p. 156; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 178.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Raewyn Passmore, Hope Walker


Surname: Bliss, Blisse
Forename: David
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cambridgeshire: Cambridge
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1624-43
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: .
Biographical notes: Blisse carried out various works in Clare College, Cambridge, c. 1624-43.
Selected sources: Clare College, Cambridge, Junior Bursar"s Accounts, 1571-1611, MS. CCAD/2/1/1/3, fols. 118v, 182v, 266v; Robert Willis and John Willis Clarke, The Architectural History of the Universty of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton (4 vols., Cambridge, 1886), I, 97.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Malcom Airs


Surname: Blithe
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Thaxted
Occuptational description: painter and glazier
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1563
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Glazed chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1563 for c. £20
Biographical notes: Blithe glazed the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1563 for about £20, but seems also to have worked as a painter/glass painter.
Selected sources: Robert Willis and John Willis Clarke, The Architectural History of the Universty of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton (4 vols., Cambridge, 1886), II, 568.
Researched by: Malcom Airs


Surname: Blockland, Buckland
Forename: Frans, Fraunces
Origin: Alien: Dutch
Place of work/residence: London: Aldgate Ward
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: in England 1583
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited as a Dutch painter in Aldgate, 1583.
Selected sources: R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, eds., Return of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908), II, p. 320.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Blome, Blomer
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer; Stationer from October, 1630.
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1626 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Mr Lee
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Blome gained admission to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship, 1626, but transferred to the Stationers" Company, 1630. It is unclear whether he actually painted, but he may have utilized his painter"s training to illustrate books under the Stationers" aegis.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/24.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Blomfield, Blomefield
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Bury St. Edmunds; London
Occuptational description: painter and stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1516-29
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Blomefield was cited in actions for debt in the Court of Common Pleas, 1516 and 1529.
Selected sources: The National Archives, CP 40/1013/969f and /945f, /d.854; CP 40/1023/727d; CP 40/1060/ 5093f.
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Blondell
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1627-1633
Master of: Two un-named apprenticers, 1633.
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/29, and 001/93.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Blower
Forename: Humphrey
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Leicestershire: Loughborough
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1527
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Blower was cited in an action for trespass, Court of Common Pleas, 1527.
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/1055/15f.
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Blundell
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Christ Church, Newgate Street
Occuptational description: picturemaker
Life dates:
Work dates: d. by 1595
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Blundell is identified as a picture maker as of 1595 in the remarriage record of his widow in 1602/3.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 38.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Blundell, Blondell
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, 1617; St. Alphage Cripplegate, 1640
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: will 1640
Work dates: cited 1617- 1640.
Master of: John Child prior to 1627
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Blundell is identified as a painter in the baptismal records of his children: Barbara (1617), Edward and second daughter Barbara (twins) in 1622, all at St. Giles Cripplegate, 1622. He apprenticed one son to a London grocer in 1631/2. His apprentice John Child (q.v.) was admitted to the Livery in 1627.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives, MSS. DL/AL/C/002/MS09051/008/ 351 and P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/003, see by date ; Cliff Webb, ed., London Livery Company Apprenticeship Registers, vol. 48, Grocers" Company, 1629-1800 (2008), p. 20.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Blunden, Blundon
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, 1608, 1611, 1618
Occuptational description: painter, painter-stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1608, 1611, 1618.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Blunden is identified as a painter in the baptismal records of his son Francis, November, 1608; daughter Judith, February, 1609; son John, 1611; and daughter Jane, 1618; all at St. Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/002, (unpaginated; see by date)
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Blyshe
Forename: Edward
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate at death, 1590/91
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: d. 1590/91
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 38
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bocher
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1552-53
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed in the Revels, 1552-53.
Selected sources: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Revels at Court in the time of King Edward VI and Queen Mary (Louvain, 1914), pp. 101, 131.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bockett
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Botolph without Bishopsgate
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1618-post 1635
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Worked at Clothworkers" Hall, in 1632/3
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London; fined for "very bad work" in 1624. Bockett is also identified as a painter in the baptismal records of his children: Robert (24 September, 1620), Helen (5 October, 1623), and William (24 December, 1626), all at St. Botolph"s without Bishopsgate. He was handsomely paid for work at Clothworkers" Hall in 1632/3 and again in 1634/5.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/7; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 38.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Bol, Boll, Bolue
Forename: Cornelis
Origin: Alien: Dutch
Place of work/residence: Westminster: St. Martin -in-the-Fields
Occuptational description: painter, picture-drawer
Life dates: 1589-1666
Work dates: In London, c. 1635-1638/9
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Landscapes: "Westminster and the Thames near London"; " View of the Thames at Somerset House".
Biographical notes: Bol lived in Antwerp and Paris before coming to England shortly before 1635, taking up residence with his wife in St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
Selected sources: Irene Scouloudi, ed., Returns of Strangers in the Metropolis 1593, 1627, 1635, 1639 (Huguenot Society of London, quarto series, vol. 52, 1985), p. 249; Christopher Wright, Catherine Gordon, and Mary Peskett Smith, eds., British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections (New Haven and London, 2006) p. 105; Stefanie Kollmann, Niederlandische Kunstler und Kunst im London des 17. Jahrhunderts, (Hildesheim, Zurich; New York, 2000), pp. 157-58.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bollre
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Norfolk and/or Suffolk: Cratfield
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1493/94
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted a tabernacle of Our Lady, Cratfield, 1494
Biographical notes: Bollre received £ 2 13s 4d for painting the image of the Virgin in Cratfield Church, Norfolk, 1493/4, and may have been active after 1500.
Selected sources: Audrey Baker, English Panel Paintings, 1400-1558, a Survey of Figure Paintings in East Anglian Rood Screens (London, 2011), p. 97.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bolton, Boulton
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: East Smithfield
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1641
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bolton apprenticed his son to a London Tallow Chandler in 1641, in which document he is referred to as a painter. It seems reasonable to assume he practiced his trade prior to 1640.
Selected sources: Cliff Webb, ed., London Livery Company Apprenticeship Registers, vol. 39, Tallow Chandlers Company, 1633-1800 (2003), p. 12.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bolton
Forename: Stephen
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, 1595/6
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1595/6
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bolton married on 23 February, 1595/6; his son Samuel was baptised on 25 December, 1595; and he was buried on 29 August, 1596, all at St. Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/001, see by dates; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 38.
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Bonayre
Forename: Didier
Origin: Alien: French
Place of work/residence: [uncertain]
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: denizened 1544
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: William Page, ed., Letters of Denization and Acts of Naturalization for Aliens in England, 1509-1603, (Huguenot Society of London, Lymington, 1893), p. 25.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bond
Forename: John I
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Martin Ludgate
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1558
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bond is identified as a painter in the burial record of his daughter Joane, 25 November, 1558.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 38.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bond
Forename: John II
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1626/7
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bond was identified as a painter and named as a legatee in the will of Phagan Gwynn (q.v.), 1626/7.
Selected sources: The National Archives, PROB 11/121/318
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bond
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1572-73
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed in the Revels, 1572/3.
Selected sources: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), p. 172.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bonnam, Bonham
Forename: [unknown]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1607
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Diary of Thomas Cocks", Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury, Kent, MS. Literary MS. E 31., fol., 12r.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bonner
Forename: John, Jan, Haunce, Hans
Origin: Alien: Dutch
Place of work/residence: London: St. Ethelburga by 1571
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. in England 1568-74.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bonner was employed in the Revels, 1573/4.
Selected sources: R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, eds., Return of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908), I, p. 431; , Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), pp. 154-5; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), pp. 195, 207, 215.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler, Hope Walker


Surname: Bonner
Forename: Nicholas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1623-1633
Master of: John Thorny, prior to 1627
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS005667/001/3, 001/35, 001/74, and 001/84.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bonnerd
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury
Occuptational description: freeman painter
Life dates:
Work dates: 1581/2 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury, Kent, MSS. CC FA-18, fol. 193v; CC AC3 fol. 44v; J.M. Cowper, ed., The Roll of the Freemen of the City of Canterbury from 1392 to 1800 (Canterbury, 1903) col. 314
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bonsert
Forename: Mr
Origin: Alien: Dutch
Place of work/residence: Westminster: St. Martins-in-the Field
Occuptational description: limner
Life dates:
Work dates: London 1635
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Irene Scouloudi, ed., Returns of Strangers in the Metropolis 1593, 1627, 1635, 1639 (Huguenot Society of London, quarto series, vol. 52, 1985), p. 249.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Booker
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Middlesex: Stepney
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1647
Work dates: d.1647
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Probably active before 1640.
Selected sources: The National Archive PROB 11/189/312.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Booth
Forename: Joseph
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, 1640
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. post-1640
Work dates: fl. 1637 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Mr Bankes
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship with "Mr Bankes", 1637. His son Joseph was baptised 1640, St. Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS005667/001/116; London Metropolitan Archives MS. P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/003, see by date.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Michael Berlin, Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Borcht
Forename: Hendrick van der
Origin: Alien: Dutch
Place of work/residence:
Occuptational description: painter and engraver
Life dates:
Work dates: In England 1627-1678
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Portrait of Samuel Pepys
Biographical notes: Borcht was brought by the earl of Arundel to England in 1627 to serve as keeper of the earl"s picture collection, and stayed on to serve the future Charles II after Arundel"s death.
Selected sources: National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive, painters" files vide van der Borcht the younger; Stefanie Kollmann, Niederlandische Kunstler und Kunst im London des 17. Jahrhunderts, (Hildesheim, Zurich; New York, 2000), pp. 159-60.
Researched by: Raewyn Passmore


Surname: Bordier
Forename: Jacques
Origin: Alien: b. Geneva
Place of work/residence:
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: 1616-84
Work dates: England c. 1625-38
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painting of the Battle of Naseby commissioned by Parliament to present to General Fairfax
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Daphne Foskett, ed., A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters (1972). p. 174; Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1786, repr., London, 1871), pp. 198-99.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Borlase, Borlace
Forename: Sir William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Buckinghamshire: Little Marlow
Occuptational description: gentleman amateur painter, politician and benefactor
Life dates: c. 1562-1629
Work dates: c. 1590-1627
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Portrait of Ben Jonson
Biographical notes: Borlase was a prominent member of the Buckinghamshire gentry, politician, county sheriff (for Bucks.) and MP; also a friend of Ben Jonson, whom he portrayed.
Selected sources: J.C. Davies, A History of Borlase School (Aylesbury, 1932); The National Archives, PROB 11/156/ 282-284v; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Borlase, Sir William.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Borley, Burley, Bowrley, Bowrle, Bournley
Forename: Alexander the elder
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury: Northgate Ward
Occuptational description: freeman painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1560s
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: From 1565/6-1567/68 Borley paid an annual fee for being allowed to work and trade in Canterbury, but he seems to have become a freeman thereafter. He is the father of the Canterbury painter Alexander Borley the younger (q.v.).
Selected sources: Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury, Kent, MS. CC FA-16, 134v et passim; J.M. Cowper, ed., The Roll of the Freemen of the City of Canterbury (Canterbury, 1903), cols. 215-218.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Borley, Bowrley, Bowrle, Bournley
Forename: Alexander the younger
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury: Northgate Ward
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1597
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Borley, undoubtedly the son of the Canterbury painter Alexander Borley (q.v.) is identified as a painter when he received a license to marry in 1597.
Selected sources: J.M. Cowper, ed., Canterbury Marriage Licenses, first series, 1568-1618 (Canterbury, 1892), p. 30.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Borowe, Burough
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Gabriel Fenchurch and/or St. Clements Eastcheap
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer, decorative painter
Life dates: will 1553
Work dates: fl. c. 1527-c. 1553
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London. Employed in the Royal Works, 1527.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 155; London Metropolitan Archives, MS. DL/AL/C/002/MS09051/002/85v; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 156-157.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bosom, Bossom, Bossam, Bosum
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1554-89
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed in the Royal Works, 1554-89; brother of Richard.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 155; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Revels at Court in the time of King Edward VI and Queen Mary (Louvain, 1914), pp. 199, 206, 218, 226.; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), pp. 81, 86, 91.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Bosom, Bossom, Bossam, Bosum
Forename: Henry
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Botolph without Aldgate
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1610-1626
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, Henry is first mentioned as a painter in the burial record of his still-born child in 1610/11, and in similar records of two more still-born children in 1612/13 and March, 1615. A complaint against him was made in 1626, part of a fued he was having with the painter Fracncis Gurney (q.v.).
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/22; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 39.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bosom, Bossom, Bossam, Bosum
Forename: John I
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: draughtsman, painter and cleric
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1550 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: It is probably this John Bosom who was praised by Nicholas Hilliard, who also noted that Bodom was so poor he could only afford to paint in black and white. Horace Walpole noted that he eventually gave up painting and became an evangelical minister.
Selected sources: Courtauld Institute, Witt Library, painters" files, vide Bossam, John; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Bossam, John; Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1786, repr., London, 1871), pp. 77-8.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bosom, Bossom, Bossam, Bosum
Forename: John II
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Middlesex: Enfield
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: fl. 1588-d., 1619
Work dates: d. 1619
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: He may be the John Bossom mentioned by Nicholas Hilliard as being too poor to buy pigments, and who therefore painted mostly in black and white, but he was probably a namesake of the ensuing generation. He is identified as a painter in the baptism records of his children, Henry (18 August, 1588), John (13 May, 1593) and Edward (20 July, 1595), all at St. Andrew Enfield.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MSS. DL/C/B004/MS09171//023/345v and. DL/C/B004/MS09171/017/28v; Linda Brailey Salamon, ed., Nicholas Hilliard"s Arte of Limning, (Boston, MA., 1983), p 18; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 39.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bosom, Bossom, Bossam, Bosum
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates: d.c. 1559 or 1563
Work dates: fl. 1554-58/9
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bosom was employed in the Revels, 1554-55, where he succeeded Anthony Toto as head of a painting crew including his brother George Bossom (q.v.) , Harman Harden (q.v.), Humphrey Horsenail (q.v.), Richard Pepper (q.v.), and Thomas Palmer (q.v.). He was later employed in the Revels to direct a team of painters for the Christmas celebrations of 1558/9, supervising Robert Radwryg (q.v.), Thomas Retuyap (q.v.), and Peter Cutler (q.v.).
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 155; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (I, Louvain, 1908), pp. 81, 86, 91; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Revels at Court in the time of King Edward VI and Queen Mary (II, Louvain, 1914), pp. 167, 173, 199 , 206, 218, 226; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 39.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bosom, Boosum
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1551- 1560
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: A canvas painting of Henry VIII, Edward and Elizabeth for a temporary Royal Banqueting House in 1560
Biographical notes: Bosom was employed in the Revels in 1551, and did a painting on canvas of Henry VIII, Edward and Elizabeth for a temporary Royal Banqueting House in 1560.
Selected sources: Roy Strong, "More Tudor Artists", Burlington Magazine, 108 (1966) pp. 83-85, repr. in Strong, The Tudor and Stuart Monarchy, Pageantry, Painting, Iconography (3 vols., Woodbridge, 1995) I, p. 148; Edward Town, ed.,"A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 39.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bosse
Forename: Timothy
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Botolph Aldgate
Occuptational description: painter-stainer
Life dates: will, 1630
Work dates: to c. 1630
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. DL/AL/C/001/MS09050/006/76v.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Boswell
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate in 1617
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1606/7 and 1617
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Portraits of James I, Anne of Denmark, and Prince Henry for the Drapers" Company, 1606/07.
Biographical notes: Boswell was a portrait painter who enjoyed patronage from some of the London livery companies doing what were probably copies of paintings of royalty. He received £6 from the Drapers" Company for one of James I, and £5 each for those of Anne of Denmark and Prince Henry, all in 1606/7. His son Robert was baptised at St. Giles Cripplegate in December, 1617.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/002, (unpaginated; see by date); Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 39.
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Boswell
Forename: Peter
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, at d., 1625
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. 1625
Work dates: d. 1625
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Peter Boswell is known only through the parish record of his burial, 5 August, 1625, at St. Giles Cripplegate. He may well be the brother of John Boswell, of the same parish and approximate time.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 40.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Boswell
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Martin Ludgate, Paternoster Row in 1564; St. Giles Cripplegate later on.
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1595
Work dates: fl. c. 1558-1595
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: His paintings of numerous religious figures and church officials were said by the physician William Bullein in 1564 to have lined the walls of an inn near High Barnet. He worked in the Revels from 1578 79 on a Richmond Palace production called "The Masque of the Amazons" , for which he did the gilding.
Selected sources: Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters (3rd ed., Woodbridge, 1988), p. 32; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1587 (1962), p. 178; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 40.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bosworth
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Warwickshire: Coventry
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1630-31
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bosworth was identified as a painter when he was involved in sale of property, 1630-31.
Selected sources: Warkwickshire County Record Office MS. DR 429/166.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Boteler, Botelle
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. post 1651
Work dates: cited 1642-1651
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Boteler is noted as an officer of the Painter-Stainers" Company of London in 1642 and 1645, but was probably active as a painter prior to 1640.
Selected sources: Alan Borg, The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 210; J.C. Whitebrook and W. Whitebrook, eds., London Citizens in 1651 [c. 1910], p. 7.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Botre
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk (?)
Occuptational description: painter, carver
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1493-98
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Carvings at Eastfield, Suffolk
Biographical notes: Botre may have worked on until after 1500.
Selected sources: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , p. 156.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bouell
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cheshire: Chester
Occuptational description: journeyman painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1598
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bouell was employed as a journeyman painter in Chester, 1598.
Selected sources: Chester Record Office MS., ZG 17/1 (unpaginated; see by date).
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bougen, Bowgym
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Chelmsford and Moulsham
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1599-1609
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bougen was called several times to appear at Quarter Sessions, and was in prison in 1609. He was identified as a painter on those occasions.
Selected sources: Essex Record Office MSS. Q/SR 147/37; Q/SR 178/31, 32, and Q/SR 189/65.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Boure
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Beccles
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1514
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Boure is identified as a painter when cited in a plea roll, Court of Common Pleas, Hilary term, 1514
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/1005B
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bownde
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St Clements Danes in 1527
Occuptational description: glass painter, glazier
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1527
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Glasswork at King"s College, Cambridge, 1527.
Biographical notes: Bownde worked with Galion Hone (q.v.) and others on glazing and painting glass at King"s College, Cambridge, 1527.
Selected sources:
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bowden
Forename: Michael
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, 1609
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1600-40
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Wrote the Ten Commandments for St. Giles Cripplegate Church, 1604/5; painted the sun dial at St. Clements Danes with Thomas Babb, 1616/17; various painting works at Vintners" Hall in 1622/23
Biographical notes: Bowden is identified as a painter in the baptismal record of his son John, at his home parish of St. Giles Cripplegate, August, 1609. He was a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, to which an (unnamed) apprentice brought a complaint against him in 1640. A well-known and well-patronized decorative painter of his time, Bowden inscribed The Ten Commandments for St. Giles Cripplegate Church, 1604/5; and painted the sun dial at St. Clements Danes with Thomas Babb (q.v.) , 1616/17. He was regularly empoyed by the Vintners" Company in the 1620s, carrying out an entire decorative scheme for Vintners" Hall in 1622/23, for which he received £ 74 16s 11d. But he was found to have done "Very bad woorke at St. Benet"s, Paul"s Wharf, in 1624. He served as an executor to the will of the painter John Wotton (q.v.) in 1625, and was a legatee of the painter John Higgens (q.v.) in 1635.
Selected sources: Mary Edmond, ""Limners and Picturemakers", New Light on the Lives of Miniaturists and Large-scale Portrait Painters working in London in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", Walpole Society 47 (1978-80) p. 213 n. 549; London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS005667/001/146; London Metropolitan Archives MS. P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/002, (unpaginated; see by date); Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 40.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler, Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Bower, Bowers
Forename: Edward
Origin: Devon: Totnes
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1628 or 1629-1666/7
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Thomas James c. 1630/31
Recorded work: Portraits of Charles I at his trial and elsewhere; of John Pym; John, Lord Finch; General Fairfax; and John Strange, Mayor of Bideford, c. 1640.
Biographical notes: Following a complaint made against him for painting without license in 1629, Bower became a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship with Thomas James, (q.v.) , in 1630. He had set up his workshop at Temple Bar by the late 1630s, and remained a successful mid-century portrait painter until his death in 1666/7. He may also have painted in Wales, as three of his portraits of Charles I have survived there, and also did a portrait of John Strange, Mayor of Bideford, Devon, c. 1640. His work is said to have been greatly influenced by Van Dyck, with whom, or perhaps for whom, he worked in the 1640s.
Selected sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Bower, Edward; Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1786, repr., London, 1871), p. 191; National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive, painter files, vide Bower, Edward; London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/ 43, and 001/60; Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 104.; John Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses (2 vols., Cardiff, 1958, 1963), I, pp. 5, 22, 235, 317; Christopher Wright, Catherine Gordon, and Mary Peskett Smith, eds., British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections (New Haven and London, 2006) p. 110; Karen Hearn, ed., Van Dyck & Britain, (2009), p. 171.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Raewyn Passmore


Surname: Bowgar, Bogar, Bowgard, Bogaerts
Forename: Jan or John the younger
Origin: Dutch: Antwerp
Place of work/residence: London: Christ Church Liberty, Aldgate, in Nov., 1571
Occuptational description: painter of pottes"
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. in England, 1571-post 1585.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bowgar came to London at Easter, 1571, in search of work. He lived in Southwark, St Olave"s by 1583 and was still there in 1585. He worked as a painter of pots for Jacob Janson, a Dutch potter.
Selected sources: R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, Return of Aliens in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908), II, 68, 328, 379; Hope Walker, "Netherlandish Painters in Tudor London, 1560-1580", (unpublished MPhil thesis, Courtauld Institute, 2014, cited with kind permission of the author); Appendix 3, vide Bogaerts, Jan .
Researched by: Hope Walker


Surname: Bowgen
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Surrey: Southwark
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1584.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Indicted at the Surrey County Assizes for grand larceny, Bowgen was allowed to plead benefit of clergy, 1584.
Selected sources: J.S. Cockburn, ed., Calendar of Assize Records, Surrey Indictments, Elizabeth I (1980), item 1539, p. 267.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bowker
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1628 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Abraham Holland
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship to Abraham Holland (q.v.) , 1628.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/37.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Bowly
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1633
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: John Seaton
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship to John Seaton (q.v.) , 1633.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/87.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bowram
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1639
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Abraham Holland
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship with Abraham Holland (q.v.) , 1639.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/143.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Bowre
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Gloucestershire: Gloucester
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1574
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Gloucestershire Archives Office MS. PA 154/2.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Boyer, Bowyer
Forename: Henry
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: Smithfield and then Mile End
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: c. 1544-1578
Work dates: cited 1577/78
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Always described as a painter, Boyer was brought up several times in the Bridewell as a whoremaster, 1630s, and seems to have worked to connect visiting foreign merchants and others with willing women.
Selected sources: Bridewell Hospital Court Minutes, MS. Bcb-03, pp. 108, 255, 274-5, et passim.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Boyll
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Scotland: Edinburgh
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: 1632 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: An Edinburgh burgess, Boyll worked as a painter 1632 ff.
Selected sources: Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), p. 30
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Boyton
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Saffron Walden
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: will, 1596
Work dates: d.c. 1596
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Essex Record Office MS. D/ACW 1/77.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Braban, Brabant
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London and Surrey: Farnham
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1633/4
Master of: Matthew Braban (son)
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, Braban apprenticed one son to a Vintner in 1633/4 and took on another son, Matthew (q.v.) , as his own apprentice in the same year.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/92; Cliff Webb, ed., London Livery Company Apprenticeship Registers, vol. 43, Vintners" Company (2006), p. 37.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Braban
Forename: Matthew
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1633/4
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: John Braban (father)
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship with his father John, 1633/4.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/92.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Brabander
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Botolphe Aldgate from c. 1564-1624
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1624
Work dates: fl. 1560-c. 1620
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, Brabander enjoyed a long but largely anonymous career, coming to be known to posterity mostly for the baptismal and burial records of his many children. The absence of reference to speficic commissions or works for one who enjoyed such a long active life suggests that he was no great hand at what he did.
Selected sources: Mary Edmond, ""Limners and Picturemakers", New Light on the Lives of Miniaturists and Large-scale Portrait Painters working in London in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", Walpole Society 47 (1978-80) p. 186; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 41.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brabander
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Botolph"s Aldgate in 1589
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: 1518-1589
Work dates: to d. 1589
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. P69/BOT2/A/002/MS09221, vide 7 May, 1589.
Researched by: Hope Walker


Surname: Brabant
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: Little Britain
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: d. 1622
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brabant is known as a painter only because he was killed in the collapse of a building in Blackfriars, 26 October, 1622.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 41.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Braborne
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Botolphe Aldersgate in 1628.
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1628
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: His son Richard was admitted to Christ"s Hospital, 12 April, 1628
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. CLC/201/F/003/MS12818/002, vide 12 April, 1628.
Researched by: Edward Town


Surname: Bradford
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury or Maidstone
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited, 1596
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Indicted in a fray, Maidstone Sessions, 1596.
Selected sources: Kent History and Library Centre MS, Maidstone, MS. Q/M/SI/1597/4/1.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bradshaw
Forename: Robert, Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Leicestershire: Leicester (and London?)
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d.c. 1647/8
Work dates: fl. 1613-1647/8
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: possibly George Longley/Langley
Recorded work: Two Portraits of "Mr Heyrick" of Leicester", c. 1647.
Biographical notes: Bradshaw became a freeman of Leicester, sponsored by George Longley (q.v.) , painter, in 1613. By 1620/21 he worked with Longley and Richard Basford (q.v.) "and their company" on painting St. Martin's Church, Leicester. Bradshaw painted portraits of "Mr Heyrick" also in Leicester, 1647/8. He may be the Bradshaw whom Walpole described as the only painter in London who understood the principles of perspective.
Selected sources: Helen Stocks and W.H. Stevenson, eds., Records of the Borough of Leicester 1603-1688 (Cambridge, 1923), pp. 377, 412; Henry Hartopp, ed., Register of the Freemen of Leicester, 1196-1770 (Leicester, 1927), p. 108; Thomas North, ed., The Accounts of the Churdchwardens of St. Martin's Leicester (Leicester, 1884) pp. 163; Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1786, repr., London, 1871), p. 175.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brame
Forename: Henry
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Ipswich
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1623/4
Master of: un-named apprentices, 1623 (possibly Francis Beame)
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brame took on Frances Beame, a poor child, by indenture of Jan. 1623/4, presumably as a servant or apprentice.
Selected sources: Suffolk County Record Office, Ipswich, MS. FB 93/G3/1/5.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brame
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Ipswich
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1529-35
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brame was cited in litigation for debt in the Court of Common Pleas, 1529 and 1535.
Selected sources: The Natioanl Archives CP 40/1060/5232f and CP 40/1084/2297d, /3481d, and /3508f.
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Brame
Forename: Nicholas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Ipswich
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1577/8
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brame received payment for painting the "fanes" [vanes?] in the Ipswich Moot Hall, and for repainting the timber work in the council chamber of the Moot Hall, both in 1577. He also received payment for writing up legal documents, and thus served as well as a scrivener. This will have qualified him to write out the texts on painted surfaces. Probably the father of Henry Brame, also of Ipswich.
Selected sources: John Webb, ed., The Town Finances of Elizabethan Ipswich, Select Treasurers" and Chamberlains" Accounts (Suffolk Records Society, 38, 1996), pp. 53, 60, 115.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brangwine
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Waltham Cross
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: will, 1633
Work dates: to c. 1633
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. DL/C/B004/MS09171/026/476v.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brangwine, Brangen, Brangwen, Brangwyn
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Harlow
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: will 1579
Work dates: cited 1574; will 1579.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brangwine was cited as an overseer to the will of George Derrington, yeoman of Harlow, Essex, in 1574, and referred to therein as a painter. His own will is dated 1579.
Selected sources: F.G. Emmison, ed., Essex Wills (England) 1571-1577 , III (Boston, MA., 1986), pp. 436-8; Essex Record Office MS. D/ABW 4/395.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brangwyn, Brangwine
Forename: Matthew
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Hatfield Broad Oak
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: will 1613
Work dates: d. c. 1613
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Probably the son of Robert Brangwine of Harlow.
Selected sources: Essex Record Office MS. D/ABW/7/100.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brantkhurst, see Bronkhorst
Forename: Arthur
Origin:
Place of work/residence:
Occuptational description:
Life dates:
Work dates:
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources:
Researched by:


Surname: Braxton
Forename: Francis
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1638
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: William Lynn to 1638.
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship with William Lynn, 1638.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/130.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Brayche, Braunche
Forename: Marke
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: 1509, 1531-3
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painting at Westminster Palace, 1509
Biographical notes: Employed in the Royal Works, 1509.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 155; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 156, 163.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brechfa
Forename: Ieuan
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Wales
Occuptational description: bard and heraldic painter
Life dates: d.c. 1600
Work dates: to c. 1600
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Illuminated pedigree roll of the Nicholas family, c. 1500
Biographical notes: Brechfa was a Welsh bard and heraldic painter of the late 15th/early 16th century. His illustrated roll for the Nicholas family shows the Crucifixion, several allegorical female figures, and Adam and Eve with the serpent.
Selected sources: Michael Powell Siddons, Welsh Pedigree Rolls (Aberystwyth, 1996), p. 7.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Breeke
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1558-59
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed in the Revels, 1558/59.
Selected sources: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), p. 86.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brettyn, Bretton
Forename: Henry
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Terling
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1556
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Indicted at Essex Quarter Sessions for forcible entry, 1556.
Selected sources: Essex Record Office MS. Q/SR 1/13.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brewer
Forename: Elisha
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Havering
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1565
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited as painter and tenant of Havering manor, Essex, in 1565.
Selected sources: Essex Record Office MS. D/DQ 69/6.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brewer
Forename: Lawrence
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, c. 1607-1622 (and after?)
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1647
Work dates: c. 1604-d. 1647.
Master of: John Burdett, 1626/7
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brewer was a member of the Painter-Stainers" Company of London, first mentioned as a painter in his marriage to Barbara mayle in fgebruary, 1603/04 . His daughter, Barbara, was baptised January, 1607; his son Rowland in 1614; his second daughter Barbara (preesuming the death of the first Barbara) in 1616; his son Michael in 1620, and his son John in 1622, all at St. Giles Cripplegate. There may possibly be a younger namesake cited as early as 1607. He may also have worked, or worked instead, as a maker of aqua vita.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS005667/001/27, 001/62, and 001/64; London Metropolitan Archives MS. P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/002, (unpaginated; see by date); The National Archives PROB 11/199/695; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 41.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Brewer
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, 1639
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1639/40
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brewer was identified as a painter when his daughter Anne was baptised 1639/40, St. Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/003, see by date.
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Brewer
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: heraldic painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1531
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed in the Royal Works, 1531.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 155.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bride
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1578, 1580
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bride was a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, and served as a Company official in 1580.
Selected sources: Alan Borg, The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 210.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bridges
Forename: George the elder
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Martin Ludgate
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1605
Work dates: d. 1605
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bridges was a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London and father of George the younger (q.v.). He left an estate of £ 458 12s 11d at death, indicating a man of substantial means.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. CLA/002/01/001, fol. 279r; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 41.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bridges
Forename: George the younger
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1631 ff.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted by patrimony, as the son of George the elder (q.v.) to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London in 1631.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/63.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Bridgwell, Bidgwell
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, 1609 and 1614
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1609-post 1626
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Decorative work at St. Katherine Coleman, in 1609/10
Biographical notes: Bridgwell is identified as a painter in the baptismal records of his daughter Katherine, 1609, and his son Samuel, 1614, both at St. Giles Cripplegate. He did decorative work at St. Katherine Coleman, in 1609/10, but died in poverty in 1626.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/002, (unpaginated; see by date); Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 41.
Researched by: Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Bridgewell, Bydgwell, Bidgwell
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate in 1578 ff.
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1578-d. 1609
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bridgwell was employed at the Revels, 1578/79, and at the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, 1592/3, where he painted various objects ranging from fire buckets to escutcheons on the Lord Mayor"s pew. He also worked for some of the livery companies, painting in the new parlour of Leathersellers" Hall for £6 13s 4d in 1593/94 and Clothworkers" Hall in 1595. He returned to painting parish churches in 1595/6 where he collaborated with the painter John Knight II (q.v.) at St. Mary Woolnoth, for a combined recompense of £5 6d. His last recorded work was as one of several painters collaborating on the Merchant Taylors" show celebrating the election of Leonard Holliday, one of their own, in 1605. Four years later he was dead, buried at St. Giles Cripplegate on 10 June, 1609.
Selected sources: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), p. 288; London Metropolitan Archives MS. P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/001, see by date; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) pp. 41-42.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Brigg, Brigg(es)
Forename: Daniel
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1624
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London who served in Company office in 1624.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/3.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Briggs, Brig
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: heraldic painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1502
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Heraldic painting for funeral of Prince Arthur, 1502
Biographical notes: Employed in the Royal Works, 1502.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 155.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Briscoe
Forename: Cuthbert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. 1563
Work dates: cited 1563
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Briscoe, whose forename hints at Durham origins, is identified as a painter in the record of his daughter"s burial, January 1563/4, and in his own will, made on the day of his death, 3 October, 1563, both eents recorded at St. Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 42.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Briscoe
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Benet Paul"s Wharf
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1604
Work dates: fl. c. 1586-d. 1604
Master of: Humphrey Fenton
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: John Briscoe was a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London and probably the son of Cuthbert Briscoe (q.v.). He received 40s, presumably for painting, by the Merchant Taylors" Company in 1586.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. DL/C/B004/MS09171/020/74; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014), p. 42.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bristow, Brestowe
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London and Surrey
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1631.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: Surrey County Record Office, Mortlake Parish records, BOND 2414/6/53; London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/66.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Michael Berlin


Surname: Brockas the Paynter"
Forename: [unknown; possibly John or Nicholas.]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1574
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited in a Bridewell Court document concerning his wife, 1574.
Selected sources: Bridewell Hospital Court Book, MS. Bcb-02, fol. 72v.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brockas, Brockes , Brokas, Brockise
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Havering Green, Hornchurch
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: will, 1588
Work dates: fl. prior to 1582-d., c. 1588.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brockes left a Coverdale Bible to his son Richard and a book by Erasmus to Samuel Brockas, from which we can deduce that he was an early Protestant and man of learning.
Selected sources: Essex Record Office MS. D/AEW 9/10.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brockas, Brockes
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter-stainer
Life dates: c. 1586-post 1638
Work dates: fl. 1605- 1638
Master of: John Bachelor (to 1631), George Allerton (to 1633/4)
Apprentices & journeymen: John Barchiler/Barchild, pre-1631; George Allerton, pre-1633/4.
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brockes may have been the person of that name baptised at St. Katherine Coleman in 1586, but was first recorded as a painter in 1605, when he was paid to help repair parts of the Merchant Taylors" pageant The Triumphs of the Reunited Britannia. As a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London by appreenticeship, Brockas appears with striking frequency for improprieties both in the Company itself and the civil courts. In 1625 he was one of those Painter-Stainers employed to work on the triumphal arch for Charles I"s inaugral procession through the City. He was harshly criticized by the Company in March, 1628, for his shoddy work at St. Mary Axe Church, and then for his opprobrious words to his erstwhile employer Paul Isaacson (q.v.) , to whom he was made to apologize and fined for his impudence. Despite his well deserved reuptation for being a difficult man, he seems not to have lacked for commissions in and around the city"s livery companies and (probably) churches.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/18 and 5667/1/92; Mary Edmond, ""Limners and Picturemakers", New Light on the Lives of Miniaturists and Large-scale Portrait Painters working in London in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", Walpole Society 47 (1978-80) p. 175; Alan Borg, The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005). p. 66, n. 56; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014), p. 43
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brockas, Brockhurst
Forename: Nicholas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Gabriel Fenchurch Street
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. 1578
Work dates: d. 1578
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Nicholas was a painter of Fenchurch Street, London.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 43.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brockas, Brockhurst
Forename: William I
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Gabriel Fenchurch Street
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: c. 1516-1580
Work dates: d. 1580
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: As difficult as it is to distinguish between the members of the Brockas/Brockhurst family, many of whom were painters, this William does not seem to be the one whose daughters were baptised at St. Gabriel Fenchurch Street between 1572 and 1574 as one authority would have it. Assuming that he was born in c. 1516, he would have been in his late fifties at that time, which would have been late to father children in that era.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 43.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brockas
Forename: William II
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1605
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: William may have been the son of Cuthbert (q.v.) and brother of John (q.v.) Brockas. He is recorded as having worked with John and others on the Merchant Taylors" pageant of 1605.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014), p. 43.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brokebanke
Forename: Christopher
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Norfolk: King"s Lynn
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d.c. 1534
Work dates: fl. 1501/2-1534
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brockebanke was made free of King"s Lynn as a merchant, though he worked as a painter. He eventually served as mayor. His will is dated 2 July, 1534.
Selected sources: The National Archives, PROB 11/25/191-3.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Bromfield, Bromsfield, Bromfyld, Bromeshall
Forename: Phillip
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. before 1658
Work dates: fl. 1624/5-d. 1650
Master of: John Lownes prior to 1632
Apprentices & journeymen: Thomas Cappe
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bromfield ws admitted to the Painter -Stainers" Company of London in 1624/5 by apprenticeship to Thomas Cappe III (q.v.) . He served as Cappe"s journeyman and then as his successor as the principal painter and gilder in the Royal Wardrobe. He was arrested for employing an apprentice of William Drayton (q.v.) "in the country", in 1626. He paid a fine to avoid serving as Company Warden, citing his "necessary attendance at court", in 1638. His son was apprenticed to a London Fishmonger after his death.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/12 , /20, /39, /75, /129, and /133; Cliff Webb, ed., London Livery Company Apprenticeship Registers, vol. 44, Fishmongers" Company, 1614-1800 (2006), p. 17; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 43.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Bronckhorst, Bronkhurst, Brounckhurst, Brunckthorst , Brankhorst, Branckhorst, Van Bronckorst
Forename: Arnold van, Arthur
Origin: Alien: Flemish: Mechelen
Place of work/residence: In England (pre 1565-1580; mid-1580s-1598); and Scotland (1580-mid-1580s)
Occuptational description: portrait painter
Life dates: d. 1598
Work dates: London May, 1573 1573-mid-1580s-1598; Scotland c. 1565-mid-1580s.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Portraits of Sir Henry Sidney (?) in 1565/66 for £ 4 6s); two of King James VI of Scotland; George Buchanan; James Douglas; Oliver St. John, first baron St. John of Bletso (1578) ; William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
Biographical notes: Bronckhorst worked in England from at least 1573 (though he is often credited with the portrait of Sir Henry Sidney done in 1565) and made several short trips to Scotland. On one of these trips he prospected for gold, in c. 1572, in partnership with Nicholas Hilliard (q.v.) and Cornelius de Vos (q.v.) , the latter likely to have been his cousin. He left for a longer stay in Scotland in 1580, staying there for several years (c.1580-82) as court painter to James VI, and retrurned to London in 1582 and took up residence in the parish of St. Nicholas Acon, Lombard Street. While in Scotland, he received £ 64 in Scottish currency for three portraits: two of James VI and one of the King"s tutor, George Buchanan, all in 1580. He is last recorded, in February, 1586, in the baptismal record of his son, but his date of death is unknown.
Selected sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Bronkhorst, Arnold; Christopher Brown, "British Paintings and the Low Countries, 1530-1630", in Karen Hearn, ed., Dynasties, Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England, 1530-1630 (1995), p. 27; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I, (1954), p. 150; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , p. 163; Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, eds., Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920 (Woodbridge, 1997), p. 110; National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive, painter files, vide Bronkhorst, Arnold van; Christopher Wright, Catherine Gordon, and Mary Peskett Smith, eds., British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections (New Haven and London, 2006), p. 208; Michael R. Apted and Susan Hannabuss, eds., Painters in Scotland, 1301-1700, a Biographical Dictionary (Scottish Record Society, n.s., 7, Edinburgh, 1978), p. 31; R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, eds., Return of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London (4 vols., Aberdeen, 1900-1908) II, p. 336; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) pp. 178-179.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Raewyn Passmore, Robert Tittler


Surname: Brook
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1629, 1633
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Mr Potkyn
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship to "Mr Potkyn", 1629; served as Company Steward 1633.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/48, and 001/87.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Brooke, Brooksmouth
Forename: Ralph
Origin: Lancashire: Wigan
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: herald; Painter-Stainer; "painter".
Life dates: 1533-1625
Work dates: fl. c. 1555- d. 1625.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brooke was admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London in 1576, and spent most of his career as a herald and herald painter. He held the posts of Rouge Croix Pursuivant (1580-92) and York Herald (1593-1625). He was highly critical of the College of Arms and of what he saw as corruption within its ranks. His belligerent attitude, particularly towards his arch-rival William Camden, landed him in hot water, and even gaol, on several occasions. In 1599 he wrote a discourse pointing out errors in Camden"s Brittania, and "A Catalogue of ther Sucession of the Kinges, Princes, Dukes...of England", in 1619. His painting consisted mostly of copies of rolls of arms and other heraldic devices. He was buried in Reculver, Kent, in 1625.
Selected sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Brooke, Ralph and Fulwood, William; The National Archives MS. STAC 5/B97/23; Anthony Richard Wagner, ed., A Catalogue of English Medieval Rolls of Arms (Oxford, 1950), p. 138.
Researched by: Edward Town, Robert Tittler


Surname: Brooke
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Botolph"s Aldgate in 1590s.
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: c. 1590-1620
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London; Brooke"s son John was buried in May, 1592 and three daughters buried in 1591-1593, dead of the "ague".
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MSS. P69/BOT2/A/002/MS09221, vide 29 January; 1591 and 13 May and 10 August, 1593; P69/BOT2/A/002/MS09234, v. 2, fols. 73, 79v; W.H. and H.C. Overall, eds., Index to the Series of Records known as the Remembrancia, 1579-1664 (1878), I, item 377 and n. 5.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Hope Walker


Surname: Brooke
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Devon: Exeter
Occuptational description: figure painter
Life dates: d. 1616
Work dates: fl. pre-1603/04-d., c. 1616
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted freeman of Exeter, c. 1603-05; possibly appointed deputy herald for Devon and Somerset, 1594.
Selected sources: Marjorie M. Rowe and Andrew M. Jackson, eds., Exeter Freemen, 1266-1967 (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Exeter Series, I, Exeter, 1973), p. 111; Anthony Wagner and George Squibb, "deputy heralds", in Frederick Emmison and Roy Stephens, eds., Tribute to an Antiquary: Essays Presented to Marc Fitch by Some of his Friends (London, 1976), p. 253; Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters (3rd ed., Woodbridge, 1988), p. 38.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brooker
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: picture-maker
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1636
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brooker is listed as a painter in the Rye register book of English subjects who passed through on their way to Dieppe, April, 1636.
Selected sources: John Bruce, ed., Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Charles I, 1635-1636, (1866), p. 353.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brother
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Bedfordshire: Luton
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1530/31
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted the beam above the church altar, 1530/1, for 12d.
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Barbara Tearle, ed., The Accounts of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, Luton 1526/7-1546/7, (Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, 91, 2012), 59.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Broun, Brown
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Stoke by Nayland, 1490; Bury St. Edmunds, 1522.
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1490, 1522
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Broun is cited in a case of debt, Court of Common Pleas, 1490; witness to a will, 1522. The references may apply to two namesakes, but is more likely to refer to the same person.
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/911 f.450; West Suffolk Record Office MS. Hoode 996
Researched by: Mark Merry, Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Brown
Forename: Abraham
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Lincolnshire: Boston
Occuptational description: arms-painter
Life dates: d. 1656
Work dates: fl. to d. 1656
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brown may have worked prior to 1640, and may have been the son of the London Painter-Stainer Robert Brown(e), d.c., 1608 (q.v.); he left a legacy to his kinsman John Brown of Boston, (q.v.) who was also a painter.
Selected sources: The National Archives, PROB 11/259/195r-v; London Metropolitan Archives MS. DL/C/B004/MS09171/022/312v.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brown
Forename: Geoffrey
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1529-37
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Brown was paid for restoring the Drapers" Company"s pageant wagon for the Midsummer Show, 1529, and for work on Lord Mayors" shows as well.
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: Susan Foister, "Foreigners at Court: Holbein, Van Dyck, and the Painter-Stainers" Company", in David Howarth, ed., Art and Patronage in the Caroline Court, Essays in Honour of Sir Oliver Millar (Cambridge, 1993) p. 44; Alan Borg , The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), pp. 28, 196; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Jean Robertson and D.J. Gordon, eds., A Calendar of Dramatic Records in the Books of the Livery Companies of London, 1485-1640 (Malone Society Collections, III, 1954), pp. 18-21.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brown
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1627
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship, 1627.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/29.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Brown, Browne
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Lincolnshire: Boston
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1650s
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: John was kin to the Lincolnshire arms painter Abraham Browne (q.v.) , from whom he received a legacy in 1656. He may have been active prior to 1640.
Selected sources: The National Archives, PROB 11/259/430.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brown, Browne
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Botolph"s (1631); possibly Essex: Colchester as well from 1631.
Occuptational description: Painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1631
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Brown received a legacy from John Markant, painter of Colchester, 1631.
Selected sources: Essex Record Office MS. D/ACW 11/121.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brown, Browne , Broun
Forename: John
Origin: Hertfordshire: Kingsland
Place of work/residence: London : Farringdon Without from 1523.
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer and Serjeant Painter
Life dates: d. 1532
Work dates: fl. 1502-1532.
Master of: Richard Bygnalle; John Childe
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Produced and/or directed the production of numerous heraldic and decorative works for the court, including painting for the funeral of Prince Arthur (1502); the banqueting house at Greenwich; the temporary banqueting house at Calais (1520); the Field of the Cloth of Gold, Guisnes (1520).
Biographical notes: Brown came to London with his cousin, the painter Richard Callarde (q.v.). He was probably a founding member of Painter-Stainers" Company of London. He bought property in Holy Trinity, Queenhithe Ward, London, in 1505. He was cited in an action for debt in the Court of Common Pleas, 1510; served as Painter to the Navy, 1511; and King"s Painter from 1511/12 (the title of which was changed to Serjeant Painter, 1527). Brown left a house on Little Trinity Lane to be used as the Painter-Stainers" Hall, 1532. He served as Alderman and Sheriff of London, 1523, which office necessitated his transfer to the Haberdashers" Company. he was buried at St. Vedast, Foster Lane, in 1532.
Selected sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Brown, John; Alan Borg, The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), pp. 24-27, 195; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 144; Mary Edmond, ""Limners and Picturemakers", New Light on the Lives of Miniaturists and Large-scale Portrait Painters working in London in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", Walpole Society 47 (1978-80) p. 177; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962) , pp. 156-7; London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/PA/G/012/MS05670/12; Alfred P. Beaven, The Aldermen of London, tempus Henry VIII (1908), p. 156; The National Archives CP 40/990/932f .
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Brown, Browne
Forename: Nicholas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: heraldic painter
Life dates:
Work dates: 1509
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Employed in Royal Works, 1509.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 155.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Brown, Browne
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London and Essex: Nasing
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: will 1608; d. 1614
Work dates: d. 1614
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London. Brown wrote his will as from Nasing parish, Essex, 16 June, 1608. His sons included Abraham and 6 others.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. DL/C/B004/MS09171/022/312v-13r.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Brownfeld
Forename: [unknown]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: 1637
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/122.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Browicke
Forename: [unknown]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Devon: Exeter
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: c. 1590s
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Portrait of Lawrence Seldon of Exeter.
Biographical notes: Browicke received 20s from the widow of Lawrence Seldon to paint Seldon"s portrait for the Council Chamber at Exeter, 1590s.
Selected sources: Audrey Baker, English Panel Paintings, 1400-1558, a Survey of Figure Paintings in East Anglian Rood Screens (London, 2011), p. 97.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Bryan
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Botolph"s Aldgate; Holy Trinity the Less
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: b. c. 1570-d. 1642
Work dates: fl. c. 1592-1642
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted the steeple, vane, and the "epitaph" carved by Garrett Christmas in Holy Trinity the Less for £ 3 5s in 1606; painted the Merchant Taylors" arms and two tables of rules and duties in the same church, in 1607/8.
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London. His occupation as a painter was first noted in the burial record of his stillborn daughter on 5 October, 1592, but he went on to serve the Painter-Staainers" Compnay as its court clerk, writing the minutes of each meeting almost until his 1642 demise. In addition to these secretarial duties, he did painting work for at least two churches in London plus the Merchant Taylors" Hall.
Selected sources: Alan Borg, The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005) , p. 210; London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/25, /48, and /57; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p.45.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Hope Walker


Surname: Bucle
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: 1537
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: Susan Foister, "Foreigners at Court: Holbein, Van Dyck, and the Painter-Stainers" Company", in David Howarth, ed., Art and Patronage in the Caroline Court, Essays in Honour of Sir Oliver Millar (Cambridge, 1993), p. 44; Alan Borg , The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005),. p. 196.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Buckett
Forename: Joseph
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Norfolk: Norwich
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: early 17th C.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Buckett was the son of the Norwich grocer Lancelot Buckett.
Selected sources: Virginia Tillyard, ‘Painters in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Norwich’, Norfolk Archaeology, 37 (1980), p. 316.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Buckett, Burkett, Bucket, Buckitt
Forename: Rowland
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Surrey: Southwark: St. Olave"s, 1601 and St. Saviour"s, 1603.
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: 1571-1638 or "39
Work dates: fl. 1599-1638 or 1639
Master of: Peter Faybrand prior to 1624; Francis Wethered and Edward Pierce prior to 1630.
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted a portrait of Queen Elizabeth for the mother of Sultan Mohamet III, 1599, a triumphal arch in London for the accession of James I; several paintings at Hatfield for Robert Cecil including "The Annunciation" (1608) and others in the Hatfield Chapel. His other works, nay of them collaboratively produced in his substantial workshop, included paintings both decorative and figurative for patrons including Edward Alleyn at Dulwich, Lord Spencer at Althorp, the earl of Carlisle, the Countess of Suffolk, and others.
Biographical notes: Buckett was a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London and served as Master of the Company in 1626 and 1630. His family is said to have German origins; his father, Michael, a cordwainer, was denizened in 1572. His daughter Elizabeth was buried in St. Olave, Southwark, 9 May, 1601; his son Nicholas was baptised Southwark, St. Saviour"s, 1 Sept., 1603. Buckett joined Thomas Dallam in taking a clock/organ from Queen Elizabeth to Istanbul for presentation to Sultan Mahomet III in 1599. He painted a portrait of Queen Elizabeth for the Sultan"s mother. He was employed by Robert Cecil at Hatfield and elsewhere, by the Dutch community of London to paint a triumphal arch for the accession of James I, by Edward Alleyn at Dulwich, Lord Spencer at Althorp, the earl of Carlisle, the countess of Suffolk, and others. In his prime Buckett directed a substantial workshop of painters and other building craftsmen, and sundry works attributed to him were no doubt collaborative efforts. He was also involved in painting, and in working as a contractor for painting, in several Lord Mayor"s Shows in London in the 1630s. Buckett, by then styled as "gent.", was required to appear on behalf of the Painter-Stainers" Company in the Court of Chivalry in February, 1637, regarding the dispute between the College of Arms and the Company over the right of Painter-Stainers to paint arms.
Selected sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Buckett; London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/55 and 001/80; Alan Borg, The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 210.; London Metropolitan Archives MS. P92/SAV/3001; Parish Registers of St. Olave’s Church Southwark, 1583-1627, London Metropolitan Archives MS. P71/OLA/009, see 9 May, 1601; Timon Screech, ""Pictures (The Most Part Bawdy)": the Anglo-Japaese Painting Trade in the Early 1620s" Art Bulletin, 87 (2005) pp. 56-57; Tracey Hill, Pageantry and Power, A Cultural History of the Early Modern Lord Mayor"s Show, 1558-1639 (Manchester, 2010), 208 n. 228; Richard Cust and Andrew Hopper, eds., "Court of Chivalry" web site: www.court-of-chivalry.bham.ac.uk , Borough v. Buckett, no. 345 and King of Arms v. Painter-Stainers Company, 1634-37; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) pp. 44-47.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler, Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Buckett
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter-stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1615.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Buckett was bonded to keep the peace in Middlesex Sessions, 1615.
Selected sources: William LeHardy, ed., Calendar to the Sessions Records, County of Middlesex, n.s., 4 vols. (1935-1941), II, p. 261.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Buckland
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Botolph"s Aldgate; Three Kings Alley in 1577.
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: d. 1577.
Work dates: fl. c. 1572-d. 1577.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Buckland died of the plague in October, 1577; his John also died of the plague, in 1583, age 12.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. P69/BOT2/A/002/MS09221, vide 9 October, 1577, and 22 Sept. 1583.
Researched by: Hope Walker


Surname: Buckler, Bucheler
Forename: Daniel
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles-in-the-Fields
Occuptational description: picture maker"
Life dates: d. 1625
Work dates: fl. to d., c. 1625
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Overseers to Buckler"s will included three Frenchmen: his "loving friend" Jean Baptiste Ferme, Monsieur Broneau, "resident" of the King of Spain, and Jean Baptiste Samual, agent for the Archduke of the Low Countries, all suggesting close ties with overseas contacts.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. DL/C/B004/MS09171/024/561.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bucknell
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. c. 1610 or 1615 (?); cited 1625
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bicknell is identified as a London painter when his son Richard was apprenticed to Henry Pritchard, painter of Bristol, in 1625. If Bucknell was old enough to have a son at the age of apprenticeship in 1625, he had probably been active for ten to fifteen years before that time.
Selected sources: I. Fitzroy Jones, ed., Abstract of the Apprentice Books of the City of Bristol, 1600-1630 (Bristol, 1936), p. 44
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bull
Forename: John
Origin: Alien: Dutch
Place of work/residence: Westminster: St.- Martin-in-the-Fields
Occuptational description: limner
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1635
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bull was recorded as lodging in Westminster, 1635.
Selected sources: Irene Scouloudi, ed., Returns of Strangers in the Metropolis 1593, 1627, 1635, 1639 (Huguenot Society of London, quarto series, vol. 52, 1985), p. 254.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bulle
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1628
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/39.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bullock, Bullocke
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1564 (to early 1570s?)
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Bullock carried out extensive decorative and figurative painting for Grocers" Hall in 1564, including a portrait of "Mr. Lovell" of that Company. Either he or Thomas Bullock did further work on that Hall in 1565 and 1571-72.
Biographical notes: Bullock was an active painter, and probably a member of the Painter-Stainers" Company of London, from at least the mid 1560s, frequently employed by the Grocers" Company of London to paint parts of their Hall and the portrait of their late master, Thomas Lovell.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 47; Robert Tittler, The Face of the CityCivic Portraiture and Civic identity in Early Modern England (Manchester, 2007), pp. 55, 66 n. 82, 93 n. 70, 156, 161, and 175.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bullocke
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Stephen Walbrook in 1568.
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer, decorative painter
Life dates: fl. 1531-76
Work dates: fl. 1531-d. 1576.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Decorative work on Westminster and Whitehall Palaces; painting and writing scriptures at St. Mary Woolchurch for £4 7s in 1560/61; painted banners for the Ironmongers" pageant in the Lord Mayor"s Show of 1566, .
Biographical notes: Thomas may have been the son of the Bury St. Edmunds painter by the same name (q.v.) who, as cited in 1523, may well have been of the appropriate age to have a son who began his career in 1531. Thomes of London was a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London and is recorded as having done various decorative painting commissions for several London churches and liveries. His son-in-law was the painter Timothy Cockerill (q.v.) , whom he mentioned in his will of November, 1575, along with the Painter-Stainer George Cable (q.v.) who was apponted to oversee it.
Selected sources: Alan Borg , The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 196; Susan Foister, "Foreigners at Court: Holbein, Van Dyck, and the Painter-Stainers" Company", in David Howarth, ed., Art and Patronage in the Caroline Court, Essays in Honour of Sir Oliver Millar (Cambridge, 1993) p. 44; London Metropolitan Archives MS. DL/AL/C/002/MS09051/004/84v; Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 157; Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 155-56; London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/PA/G/012/MS05670/16; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) pp. 47-8, 49.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bullok, Bullocke
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Bury St. Edmunds, 1523
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1523
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bullok was cited in an action for debt in the Court of Common Pleas, 1523.
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/1038/12f.
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Burbage
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St Leonard Shoreditch at death
Occuptational description: actor, playwright, entrepreneur, and sometime painter.
Life dates: 1568-1619
Work dates: fl. c. 1584-1619
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: One of the foremost actors and theatrical entrepreneurs of his time, Burbage was a friend and associate of Shakespeare and builder of The Globe Theatre, but he also painted.
Selected sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vide Burbage, Richard.; National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive, painter files, vide Burbage, Richard; Courtauld Institute, Witt Library, painters" files, vide Burbage, Richard.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Raewyn Passmore


Surname: Burchell, Birchett, Burchett
Forename: Henry
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1646
Work dates: 1627
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Thomas Babb
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship to "Mr [Thomas?] Babb", 1627.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS005667/001/35; London Metropolitan Archives MS. DL/AL/C/001/MS09050/008/4v.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Burd
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: 1638/9
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Walter Mounck
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship with Walter Mounk, 1638/9.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/138.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Burdett, Burditt
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate, 1632
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1627-32
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Lawrence Brewer
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship with Lawrence Brewer, 1626/7. His daughter Abbe was baptised Oct. 1632 at St. Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS005667/001/27; London Metropolitan Archives MS P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/003, see by date.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Michael Berlin, Alan H. Nelson


Surname: Burgess, Burgeys (?)
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Surrey: Cranley
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1529
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Burgess was cited in an action for debt, Court of Common Pleas, 1529. He may be the same man as Thomas Burgeys of Pulborough, Sussex.
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/1060/6075f
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Burgeys
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Sussex: Pulborough
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1521
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Burgeys was cited in an action of debt in the Court of Common Pleas, 1521. He may be the same man as Thomas Burgess of Cranley (Cranleigh), Sussex (q.v.)
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/1031/22d
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Burgis
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate as of 1587/8
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: mentioned in 1587/8
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Burgis is identified as a painter in the burial record of his wife in 1587/8 at St. Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 48.
Researched by:


Surname: Burklande
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Botolph"s Aldgate in 1577
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: Died of plague, October, 1577
Work dates: d. 1577
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: He was referred to as a householder at death his 1577.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. P69/BOT2/A/002/MS09222, vide 9 October, 1577.
Researched by: Hope Walker


Surname: Burley
Forename: Alexander
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury: St. Margaret"s Northgate
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1593
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Burley received a license to marry , 1593. Possibly the same man as Alexander Bournely.
Selected sources: J.M. Cowper, ed., Canterbury Marriage Licenses, first series, 1568-1618 (Canterbury, 1892), p. 39.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Burnham, Burman
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Brentwood
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: will, 1581
Work dates: d.c. 1581/2
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources:
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Burly, Burghley, Burlie, Burley
Forename: Edward
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Andrew Undershaft
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. 1625
Work dates: d. 1625
Master of: Walter Gostilowe
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: The National Archives PROB 11/147/194; London Metropolitan Archives MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/30.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Burnlage
Forename: Alex
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Canterbury
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: court case, 1598
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Kent Study Centre MS. Q/M/SRc/1598/99.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Burrell
Forename: John
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Kent: Lydd
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: court case, 1517
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Accused of horse theft in the County Sessions, 1517.
Selected sources: East Sussex County Record Office MS. RYE/57/3 fols. 67-71.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Burrell
Forename: Robert
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (1540s); Lincolnshire: Grimsby, 1554.
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1540s, 1554
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Whitehall Palace in the 1540s
Biographical notes: Burrell worked on Whitehall Palace in the 1540s and was named as a painter when cited in an action for debt in the Court of Common Pleas, 1554.
Selected sources: H.M. Colvin, et al., The History of the King"s Works (7 vols., 1963-82) , IV, 314; The national Archives CP 40/1157/19d.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Burrodall
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: fl. 1625-1629
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London; referred to as "decayed" in 1625 and a recipient of alms from the Company.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/17 and 001/45.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Burrowson
Forename: Humphrey
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: 1633/4
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Richard Hill
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship with Richard Hill (q.v.) , 1633/4 .
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/92.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Burton, Barton
Forename: [unknown]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter-stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: 1626, 1637
Master of: John Ireland prior to 1634
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Burton was a member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, serving as an officer of the Company in 1637. He was also the subject of a complaint to the Company in 1626.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library MS. CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS005667/001/26 and 001/119.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Burton
Forename: Anthony
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Bartholomw the Less
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 6 Jan., 1607/08
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Burton is identified as a painter in the baptismal record of his son John, 6 January, 1607/08.
Selected sources: St. Bartholomew"s Hospital Archives, Parish Register Transcript, see by date.
Researched by: Edward Town


Surname: Burton
Forename: Edmund
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Westminster
Occuptational description: picture drawer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1577
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Burton was called to appear at Middlesex Sessions, 1577. He may be the same man as Edmund Barton (q.v.) who was cited in London in 1587.
Selected sources: John Cordy Jeaffreson, ed., Middlesex County Records, I (n.d.), p. 173.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bush, Busshe
Forename: Edmund
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: 1558/9
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bush, likely related to the family of that name whose members were active painters in Suffolk and Essex, was employed in the Revels, 1558/9 along with his possible relative Thomas Bush (q.v.).
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 156; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), pp. 81, 91.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bush, Busshe
Forename: Edward
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Essex: Stysted (Stansted?)
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1525
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited in an action for debt, Court of Common Pleas, 1525.
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/1046/867d.
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Bush, Busshe
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Bury St. Edmunds in 1507/08
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1507/08
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bush is identified as a painter when cited in a plea roll, Court of Common Pleas, 1507/08
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/983
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bush, Bushe, Busche
Forename: James
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Bury St. Edmnds
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1536, 1544
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bush worked at Hengrave Hall, Suffolk, in 1536; he was cited in an action of debt in the Court of Common Pleas, 1544.
Selected sources: Cambridge University Library, Hengrave MS. 80; The National Archives CP 40/1120/5655f.
Researched by: Malcom Airs; Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Bush, Busshe
Forename: Thomas I
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk and/or Essex
Occuptational description: painter, glazier
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1507-10
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Designed chapel window, Little Saxham Hall, for glazier to execute, 1509-10. May have made the chapel window at Horham Hall, Essex, in c.1507 for Sir John Cutte.
Biographical notes: Bush designed the chapel window, Little Saxham Hall, Suffolk, for a glazier to execute, 1509-10. He may have made the chapel window at Horham Hall, Essex, in c.1507 for Sir John Cutte.
Selected sources: John Gage, The History and Antiquities of Suffolk. Thingoe Hundred (Bury St. Edmunds, 1838), 149.
Researched by: Malcom Airs, Andrea Kirkham


Surname: Bush, Busshe
Forename: Thomas II
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Suffolk: Bury St. Edmunds in 1523.
Occuptational description: stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1523
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Cited in an action for debt, Court of Common Pleas, 1523.
Selected sources: The National Archives CP 40/1038/935d.
Researched by: Lucy Wrapson


Surname: Bush, Busshe
Forename: Thomas III
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: painter and heraldic painter
Life dates: d. c. 1575
Work dates: 1558/9-d., 1574/5
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Thomas, likely related to the family of that name whose members were active painters in Suffolk and Essex and also to his contemporary London painter Edmond Bush (q.v.) was, along with Edmond, employed in the Revels, 1558/9-1574/5.
Selected sources: Erna Auerbach, Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Elizabeth I (1954), p. 156; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), pp. 91, 195, 215, 231.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Bush
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Norfolk: Norwich
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: 1553/4
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: not apprenticed
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted freeman of Norwich, 1554.
Selected sources: Virginia Tillyard, ‘Painters in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Norwich’, Norfolk Archaeology, 37 (1980), p. 315; Percy Millican, ed., The Register of the Freemen of Norwich, 1548-1713 (Norwich, 1934) p. 107.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Buston
Forename: Wiliam
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter-stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1631
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/66.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Butcher
Forename: Robert
Origin: Derbyshire: Bolsover (?)
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter-stainer
Life dates: d. 1607
Work dates: fl. to d. 1607.
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London, Butcher left left a bequest to the poor folk of Bolsover, Derbyshire, suggesting that he was born and brought up in that community before moving to London.
Selected sources: The National Archives PROB 11/110/210.
Researched by: Robert Tittler, Edward Town


Surname: Butler
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: Chancery Lane, Holborn
Occuptational description: glass-painter, glazier
Life dates: d. 1638
Work dates: fl. c. 1610s-d., 1638
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Glass painting, including portraits, at Whitehall Palace; Charterhouse; Merchant Taylors Hall; Westminster Abbey; for Sir Henry Slingsby"s Yorkshire seat at Moor Monkton; Naworth Castle, Cumberland; St. Martin s-in-the-Field, etc.
Biographical notes: Butler became one of the most prominent glass-painters of his era.
Selected sources: London Metropolitan Archives MS. ACC/1876/F/09/048; Geoffrey Lane, ""A World Turned Upside Down": London Glass Painters, 1600-1660", Journal of Stained Glass, 29 (2005) pp. 53-58; Anthony Wells-Cole, Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: the Influence of Continental Prints, 1558-1625 (New Haven, 1997), pp. 121, 218; Michael Archer, "English Painted Glass in the Seventeenth Century: the Work of Abraham van Linge", Apollo (January, 1975) pp. 26-31.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Butler
Forename: Thomas I
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London: St. Giles Cripplegate
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1612/13
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Butler Is identified as a painter in the baptismal record of his son John, February, 1611/12, and his own marriage record, presumably to a second wife, in April, 1613, all at St. Giles Cripplegate.
Selected sources: Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 48
Researched by:


Surname: Butler
Forename: Thomas II
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates: d. post-1635
Work dates: fl. 1625- post 1635
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen: Mr Mountsteven
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship with "Mr Mountsteven" (q.v.) , 1625, and served the Company as an officer in 1635 and after.
Selected sources: London Guildhall Library CLC/L/PA/B/001/MS05667/001/17, 001/109, et seq.
Researched by: Michael Berlin, Robert Tittler


Surname: Butler
Forename: William
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Hertfordshire: Codicote
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates: will, 1611
Work dates: fl. to d. c. 1611
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Butler is identified as a painter in his will of 1611.
Selected sources: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies MSS. 8AR17; 52AW6; and A25/22.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bygnalle
Forename: Richard
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: painter and probably heraldic painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1527-1532
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bygnalle was admitted to the Painter-Stainers" Company of London by apprenticeship to John Browne (q.v.), who left him at his death in 1532 several books of arms plus other painting supplies. Bygnalle worked at the Revels in 1527.
Selected sources: The National Archives PROB 11//24/70; Edward Town, ed., " A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547-1625", The Walpole Society, 76 (2014) p. 41.
Researched by:


Surname: Bynge
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1584-85
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Bynge was employed in the Revels in 1584-84 for 18 d per diem.
Selected sources: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837 (1962), p. 189; Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), p. 366.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Bynglaye
Forename: [unknown]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Cambridgeshire: Cambridge
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1555
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Painted the rood in Great St. Mary"s, Cambridge
Biographical notes: Bynglaye painted the rood at Great St. Mary"s, Cambridge, 1555, for 5s 8d.
Selected sources: J.A. Foster, ed., Churchardens" Accounts of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge, 1504-1635 (Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 35 (1905) p. 131.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Byrd(e) see Bird
Forename: John


Surname: Byrd
Forename: [unknown]
Origin:
Place of work/residence: Glamorganshire (?)
Occuptational description: painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1590
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work: Three panel portraits of the family of Sir Edward Stradling in St Mary"s Chapel, Parish Church of St. Donat, Glamorganshire .
Biographical notes:
Selected sources: Christopher Wright, Catherine Gordon, and Mary Peskett Smith, eds., British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections (New Haven and London, 2006), p. 224.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Byrrell
Forename: George
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London
Occuptational description: Painter-Stainer
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1537
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: A member of the Painter -Stainers" Company of London.
Selected sources: Susan Foister, "Foreigners at Court: Holbein, Van Dyck, and the Painter-Stainers" Company", in David Howarth, ed., Art and Patronage in the Caroline Court, Essays in Honour of Sir Oliver Millar (Cambridge, 1993), p. 44; Alan Borg , The History of the Worshipful Company of Painters, Otherwise Painter-Stainers (Huddersfield, 2005), p. 196.
Researched by: Robert Tittler


Surname: Byshoppe
Forename: Thomas
Origin:
Place of work/residence: London (?)
Occuptational description: decorative painter
Life dates:
Work dates: cited 1558/9
Master of:
Apprentices & journeymen:
Recorded work:
Biographical notes: Byshoppe was employed in the Revels, 1558/59.
Selected sources: Albert Feuillerat, ed., Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain, 1908), pp. 81, 91.
Researched by: Robert Tittler