EARLY PORTRAIT PAINTERS
Horace Walpole has asserted that this country has very rarely given birth to a genius in painting. "Flanders and Holland," says he, "have sent us the greatest men that we can boast." The following list of portrait painters who are reputed to have practised in England during the Tudor and Stuart periods contains, it will be seen at once, a very large proportion of foreign names:—
| John Bettes | — | 1570 | |
| Thomas Bettes | — | — | Surmised to be the son or brother of John Bettes. |
| Pierre Bordier (E) | — | — | temp. Charles I. |
| Jacques Bordier (E) | 1616 | -1684 | — |
| Alexander Brown | — | — | temp. Charles II. |
| Samuel Butler | 1612 | -1680 | |
| Joost Van Cleef | 1500 | -1536 | |
| Francis Cleyn | 1625 | -1650 | |
| John Cleyn | — | — | |
| Penelope Cleyn | — | — | temp. Charles II. |
| Samuel Cooper | 1609 | -1672 | |
| Alexander Cooper | — | — | flo. 1650-1660. |
| David de Grange | — | — | |
| Lucas de Heere | 1534 | -1584 | |
| Nathaniel Dixon[1] | — | — | |
| William Faithorne | 1661 | -1691 | |
| Thomas Flatman | 1633 | -1688 | |
| Sir Balthazar Gerbier | 1591 | -1667 | |
| Richard Gibson | 1651 | -1690 | |
| Edward Gibson | — | — | |
| William Gibson | 1644 | -1702 | |
| John Greenhill | 1649 | -1676 | |
| John Hayles | — | -1679 | Contemporary of Cooper. |
| Nicholas Hilliard | 1547 | -1619 | |
| Lawrence Hilliard | — | — | Son of Nicholas Hilliard. |
| Gerard Lucas Hornebonde | 1498 | -1554 | |
| Susannah Hornebonde | cir. 1503 | — | |
| John Hoskins | — | 1664 | |
| John Hoskins, junr. (?) | — | — | flo. 1686 (?) |
| Hans Holbein the younger | 1495 | -1543 | |
| George Jamesone | 1586 | -1644 | |
| François Clouet or Janet | cir. 1510 | -1571-4 | |
| Cornelius Janssen | 1590 | -1665 | |
| David Loggan | 1630 | -1693 | |
| Sir Antonio More | 1525 | -1581 | |
| Gaspar Netscher | 1639 | -1684 | |
| Isaac Oliver | 1556 | -1617 | |
| Peter Oliver | 1601 | -1647 | |
| Sir Robert Peake | 1592 | -1667 | |
| Luca Penni | cir. 1500 | — | |
| Jean Petitot | 1607 | -1691 | |
| Jean Petitot, fils | 1650 | — | |
| Cornelius Polemberg | 1586 | -1660 | |
| Theodore Russell | 1614 | — | |
| John Shute or Shoote | — | 1563 | |
| Matthew Snelling | — | — | flo. 1647. |
| Gwillim Streetes | — | — | flo. temp. Edward VI. |
| Levina Teerlinck | — | — | Contemporary of Holbein. |
| Girolamo da Trevigi | 1497 | -1554 | |
| Herbert Tuer | — | 1680 | (?) |
| Sir A. Van Dyck | 1599 | -1641 | |
| Frederigo Zucchero | 1543 | -1609 |
As this book makes no claim to be regarded as a biographical dictionary, and as I have given such particulars as I have been able to ascertain about the whole of the above named in my larger works, I do not propose to deal with those mentioned in this list seriatim, but I shall devote chapters to the most important of them, such men as Samuel Cooper, Hilliard, Hoskins, Holbein, the Olivers, and Petitot.
N. HILLIARD.
NICHOLAS HILLIARD, BY HIMSELF.
(From Penshurst.)
