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Hans eworth biography
Hans Eworth
Flemish painter
Hans Eworth (or Ewouts; c. 1520–1574) was a Flemishpainter active in England in the mid-16th century. Along with other exiled Flemings, he made a career in Tudor London, painting allegorical images as well as portraits of the gentry and nobility.[1] About 40 paintings are now attributed to Eworth,[2] among them portraits of Mary I and Elizabeth I.
Eworth also executed decorative commissions for Elizabeth's Office of the Revels in the early 1570s.
Career
Nothing is known of Eworth's early life or training. As ″Jan Euworts″,[3] he is recorded as a freeman of the artists' Guild of St Luke in Antwerp in 1540.
A ″Jan and Nicholas Ewouts, painter and mercer″ were expelled from Antwerp for heresy in 1544 and scholars generally accept that this Jan is the same individual.[4] By 1545 Eworth was resident in London, where he is well recorded (under a wide variety of spellings) from 1549.[1]
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