Hieronimo Custodis
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File:Elizabeth Brydges 1589.jpg, aged 14, daughter of Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos, and maid of honour to Elizabeth I, 1589]]
Hieronimo Custodis (also spelled Hieronymus, Heironimos) (died c. 1593) was a Flemish portrait painter active in England in the reign of Elizabeth I.Strong 1969, p. 195
Life and work
A native of Antwerp, Custodis was one of many Flemish artists of the Tudor court who had fled to England to avoid the persecution of Protestants in the Spanish Netherlands.Brown, Christopher. "British Painting and the Low Countries 1530–1630". In Hearn 1995, p. 27. He is thought to have arrived in England sometime after the fall of Antwerp to the forces of the Duke of Parma in 1585.
Three English portraits by Custodis signed and dated 1589 firmly establish him as resident in London by that year. Sir Roy Strong attributes a portrait of Sir Henry Bromley dated 1587 to Custodis, suggesting an earlier arrival, and has verified the recent attribution of a portrait of the young Edward Talbot dated 1586 to Custodis.Weiss Gallery 2011, p. 20 In 1591, he was living in the parish of St Bodolph-without-Aldgate where "Jacobus the son of Ieronyme Custodis A Paynter" was baptised on 2 March.Hearn 1995, p. 114 He is assumed to have died in 1593, as all of his known works are dated between 1589 and 1593, and his widow remarried that year.
Custodis's unsigned but dated works are identified by "palaeographical peculiarities"Strong 1963 in the inscriptions which can be closely matched to those in his signed portraits.
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Gallery
File:Hieronimo Custodis Edward Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury 1586.jpg|Edward Talbot, later 8th Earl of Shrewsbury, dated 1586
File:Hieronimo Custodis portrait of Giles Brydges 3rd Baron Chandos 1589.jpg|Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos, signed and dated 1589
File:Sir John Harington by Hieronimo Custodis.jpg|Sir John Harington of Kelston, c. 1590–93Attribution by Roy Strong, 1969. A portrait of Harington's wife, Mary Rogers, in the Tate, formerly attributed to Custodis by Strong, is now attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=5134&searchid=11609]. Portrait of Mary Rogers.
File:Sir John Ashburnham by Hieronimo Custodis.jpg|Sir John Ashburnham, 1593
Notes
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References
- Hearn, Karen, ed. Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630. New York: Rizzoli, 1995. {{ISBN|0-8478-1940-X}}
- Strong, Roy. The English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture, 1969, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London (Strong 1969)
- Strong, Roy. "Elizabethan Painting: An Approach Through Inscriptions. 1: Robert Peake the Elder." The Burlington Magazine 105 (February 1963): 53–57. Reprinted in Strong 1969.
- Weiss Gallery. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110930044537/http://www.weissgallery.com/catalogue/weiss2011.htm Facing the Past: A catalogue of early portraiture 1530–1780], Weiss Gallery, London.
External links
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Category:People of the Tudor period
Category:Expatriates in the Kingdom of England
Category:Flemish Renaissance painters
Category:Year of birth unknown