Rowland Lockey

Rowland Lockey after Hans Holbein the Younger, The Family of Sir Thomas More, c. 1594

Rowland Lockey (c. 1565–1616) was an English painter and goldsmith, and was the son of Leonard Lockey,[1] a crossbow maker of the parish of St Bride's, Fleet Street, London. Lockey was apprenticed to Queen Elizabeth's miniaturist and goldsmith Nicholas Hilliard[2] for eight years beginning Michaelmas 1581[1] and was made a freeman or master of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths by 1600.[3]

He worked mainly as a copyist of earlier portraits to make up sets of oil paintings for the fashionable long galleries of great houses,[3] but signed or documented portrait miniatures on vellum and a signed title page engraving for the 1602 Bishops' Bible also survive.[4]

  1. ^ a b Lewis, p. 8-9
  2. ^ "Rowland Lockey." The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art, Oxford University Press, Inc., 2002.
  3. ^ a b Strong 1969, p. 255.
  4. ^ Strong 1983, p. 136-140