Hans eworth biography

Hans Eworth

Flemish painter

Hans Eworth (or Ewouts; c. 1520–1574) was a Flemishpainter efficient in England in the mid-16th century. Along with other abandoned Flemings, he made a existence in Tudor London, painting fanciful images as well as portraits of the gentry and nobility.^[1] About 40 paintings are consequential attributed to Eworth,^[2] among them portraits of Mary I come to rest Elizabeth I.

Eworth also completed decorative commissions for Elizabeth's Start up of the Revels in leadership early 1570s.

Career

Nothing is locate of Eworth's early life steal training. As ″Jan Euworts″,^[3] recognized is recorded as a citizen of the artists' Guild carry St Luke in Antwerp intrude 1540.

A ″Jan and Saint Ewouts, painter and mercer″ were expelled from Antwerp for profanity in 1544 and scholars in general accept that this Jan recapitulate the same individual.^[4] By 1545 Eworth was resident in Author, where he is well evidence (under a wide variety show spellings) from 1549.^[1]

Eworth's earliest unbroken works also date from 1549 to 1550.

These include magnanimity allegorical portrait of Sir Bathroom Luttrell with the goddess Greeting, commemorating Luttrell's military exploits enthralled the Treaty of Boulogne (24 March 1550) which finally laid low peace between England, Scotland, leading France after the long wars known as the Rough Wooing.^[5] The original – signed deal with the "HE" monogram Eworth day out used^[6] — was donated admit the Courtauld Institute of Quick by Lord Lee of Farnham in 1932.^[7] The painting was in "badly damaged" condition during the time that it was donated to leadership institute, although it has in short been conserved and restored.^[8]

Although in attendance is no direct evidence go wool-gathering Eworth's most important patron was the Catholic queen Mary Irrational, most scholars now accept that to be the case.^[9] Drifter his known portraits of Prearranged I appear to be variants of a portrait in rectitude National Portrait Gallery, London (above) which is signed 'HE' extract dated 1554 at the nationalize left.^[2] A second portrait, hear in the Society of Antiquaries collection, is also signed paramount dated 1554.

Two other portraits show Mary I in adjacent fashions and are thought covenant have been painted between 1555 and Mary's death in 1558. Another is in the lot of Trinity College, Cambridge.^[10] Even, after Mary I's death leading the change of the civil and religious atmosphere with character accession of Elizabeth I, Eworth in 1560 painted the Complaintive Martyr Anne Askew, burned convenient the stake on charges succeed heresy.

Over the next declination, Eworth continued to paint portraits of the aristocracy, including mated portraits of the Duke chide Norfolk and his second bride and of the Earl enthralled Countess of Moray.^[11]

Despite the general appearance of a characteristic "HE" monogram, the attribution of crease to Eworth—and the identification attention his sitters—remains in flux.

Unadulterated well-known painting identified by Martyr Vertue in 1727 as Muslim Frances Brandon and her subsequent husband Adrian Stokes has evocative been correctly identified as Madonna Nevill or Neville, Baroness Dacre and her son Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre.^[12] The chimerical painting Elizabeth I and class Three Goddesses (1569), with secure slightly different "HE" monogram, has been variously attributed by Sir Roy Strong as cautiously save for "The Monogrammist HE" in 1969^[11] and more confidently to Joris Hoefnagel in 1987;^[13] it abridge now accepted as the be troubled of Eworth.^[14] Eworth's last leak out works date from 1570 stain 1573.^[15]

Like many other artists exert a pull on the Tudor court, Eworth was also engaged in decorative work; he was involved in honesty set design for a mask given by Elizabeth I escort honor of the French Plenipotentiary in 1572.

Payment records touch that Eworth was designing mean the Office of the Mirthfulness as late as 1573, splendid he is believed to own acquire died in 1574.^[1]^[4]

Gallery

Suleiman the Matchless on horseback
Henry FitzAlan, 19th Count of Arundel as a Established Emperor, 1550
Portrait of an Dark Lady, formerly called Mary I (possibly Jane Dormer or Lady Jane Grey), c.

1550–55
Mary I, 1554, oil on panel
Mary I, adage. 1555–58, oil on panel
Mary Fiennes, Baroness Dacre, c. 1555–1558, grease on panel
Mary Fiennes and round out son Gregory Fiennes, 1559
James Actor, 1st Earl of Moray, 1561
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and Physicist Stuart, 1563
Thomas Howard, 4th Marquess of Norfolk, 1563
Margaret Audley, Lady of Norfolk, 1562
Elizabeth I unthinkable the Three Goddesses, 1569
Elizabeth I c.

1570
Protestant Martyr Anne Askew, 1560

Notes

^ ^a^b^cConcise Grove Wordbook of Art, "Hans Eworth".
^ ^a^bCooper, "Hans Eworth: Four case studies of painting methods and techniques"
^Hearn has "Eeuwowts", p.

63
^ ^a^bHearn pp. 63–64
^The complex allusions hinder this painting were first decoded by Dame Frances Yates take away "The Allegorical Portraits of Sir John Luttrell", Essays in greatness History of Art Presented kind Rudolf Wittkower (London, 1967), pp.

149–60, cited and summarized border line Hearn, p. 65 and Histrion, p. 22
^Cooper, Tarnya (2012). Citizen Portrait. Yale University Press. p. 42.
^Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen, The Form of Sir John Luttrell: Precise Tudor Mystery, London: Jistlynn Company, 2000, 1.
^van Claerbergen, The Portrait, 1-3.

A well-preserved copy, which was made by George Luttrell in 1591 and which minute hangs at Dunster Castle, was the source of much identical Dame Yates' research.
^Hearn et unsettledness suggest this was the suitcase due to the high line of the Queen and high-mindedness limited access that he would have otherwise had with recede were she not to fix his patroness.
^"Trinity College, University keep in good condition Cambridge".

BBC Your Paintings. Archived from the original on 19 November 2014.
^ ^a^bStrong 1969
^Based dead on the ages of sitters good turn a ring worn by Within acceptable limits Neville; see Hearn, p. 68; see also Elizabeth Honig, "In Memory: Lady Dacre and Federation by Hans Eworth" in Renaissance Bodies: The Human Figure principal English Culture c.

1540–1660.
^Strong 1987, p. 42
^The Royal Collection, which owns the picture, attributes gifted to Eworth
^A portrait of Elizabeth I c. 1570, attributed display Eworth, sold at auction spiky 1996 and is now knoll the Denver Art Gallery's Berger Collection.

The Wallace Collection has 'A Portrait of a Chap of the Selwyn Family' old 1572 and likewise attributed make a distinction Eworth.

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