Rowland Lockey (active 1593-1616)
Artist 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
NPG 2765
King James I of England and VI of Scotland
after Rowland Lockey, after Arnold Bronckorst
photogravure, published 1902 (1574)
NPG D42677
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
Thematic collections
- Audio Guide: Tudor and Elizabethan portraits
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- Top selling prints
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- Tudor and Elizabethan portraits
- Portraits featuring - Necklace
- Portraits featuring - Chain
- Portraits featuring - Brooch
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