Jansen, Cornelius

Courtiers, diplomats and scholars of Stuart England look out from these prints by Cornelius Johnson (1593–1661), the London-...

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Courtiers, diplomats and scholars of Stuart England look out from these prints by Cornelius Johnson (1593–1661), the London-born portrait painter of Dutch parentage who is also known as Cornelius Jansen. They are steel engravings after paintings attributed to him, published by J. and F. Tallis in Thomas Gaspey's History of England in 1853, each sitter framed in a decorative border. Among them are Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, Sir Henry Wotton, Lord Coventry, George Villiers, Arthur Capel and Thomas Bodley, and credits such as H. Robinson after Jansen name the engraver alongside the painter.

Courtiers, diplomats and scholars of Stuart England look out from these prints by Cornelius Johnson (1593–1661), the London-born portrait painter of Dutch parentage who is also known as Cornelius Jansen. They are steel engravings after paintings attributed to him, published by J. and F. Tallis in Thomas Gaspey's History of England in 1853, each sitter framed in a decorative border. Among them are Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, Sir Henry Wotton, Lord Coventry, George Villiers, Arthur Capel and Thomas Bodley, and credits such as H. Robinson after Jansen name the engraver alongside the painter.

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