Rowland Lockey
(active 1593-1616), ArtistArtist associated with 3 portraits
Rowland Lockey was a painter and goldsmith. He was apprenticed to Queen Elizabeth's miniaturist and goldsmith Nicholas Hilliard for eight years and by 1600 had been made a freeman or master of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. He worked mainly as a copyist of earlier portraits to make up sets of oil paintings for the fashionable long galleries of great houses, but also signed or documented portrait miniatures.
Sir Thomas More, his father, his household and his descendants
by Rowland Lockey, after Hans Holbein the Younger
oil on canvas, 1593
On display in Room 1 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2765
Sir Thomas More, his father, his household and his descendants
after Rowland Lockey, after Hans Holbein the Younger
gelatin silver print, (1593-1594)
NPG D39014
King James I of England and VI of Scotland
after Rowland Lockey, after Arnold Bronckorst
photogravure, published 1902 (1574)
NPG D42677
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Bryn Layton
30 September 2021, 10:44
I worked in Poole's Cavern, a show cave in Buxton Derbyshire, in the early 2000's.
I discovered two graffiti signatures in the rock at the end of the cave. One by Rowland Lockey 1609, and further along, his known artist brother's signature Nicholas Lockey. The date that Rowland left next to his scratched signature correlates with him being in Derbyshire. According to Wikipedia, Rowland was commissioned by the 1st Earl of Devonshire, Bess of Hardwick's son, around this period.
It's not directly related to portraiture etc, but I thought it a nice piece of provenance and some evidence of his stay in Derbyshire - it was popular for people to visit the cavern in this period.