Benjamin Jonson

Sitterback to top

• Benjamin Jonson (1573?-1637), Poet and dramatist. Sitter associated with 19 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Abraham van Blyenberch (1575 or 1576-1624). Artist associated with 15 portraits.

This portraitback to top

The Flemish art Abraham van Blyenberch visited England between 1617 and 1621 and painted a small group of portraits of individuals closely associated with the court. All other surviving portraits of Jonson derive from this one.

Related worksback to top

• NPG 363: Benjamin Jonson (probably after)

Linked publicationsback to top

• Audio Guide
• Cooper, John, A Guide to the National Portrait Gallery, 2009, p. 18
• Cooper, Tarnya, Searching for Shakespeare (hardback), 2006 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 2 March - 29 May 2006), p. 180
• Cooper, Tarnya, Searching for Shakespeare, 2006 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 2 March - 29 May 2006), p. 180
• MacLeod, Catharine (preface, appreciation) Wilks, Timothy (introduction) Smuts, Malcolm (appreciation) MacGibbon, Rab (appendix), The Lost Prince: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart, 2012 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 18 October 2012 to 13 January 2013), p. 22
• Motion, Andrew (edited), Interrupted Lives: In Literature, 2004, p. 13
• Nicholl, Charles, Character Sketches: Elizabethan Writers, 1997, p. 21
• Nicholl, Charles, Insights: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, 2005, p. 42
• Piper, David, The English Face, 1992, p. 68
• Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 343
• Strong, Roy, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, p. 183

Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top

• Shakespeare and his Circle (4 October 2008 - 1 June 2009)
• Searching for Shakespeare (2 March 2006 - 29 May 2006)
• Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (17 September 2005 - 18 December 2005)

Subjects & Themesback to top

• On display at the Gallery
• Writers tour