Hieronimo Custodis (also spelled Hieronymus, Heironimos) (died c. 1593) was a Flemishportrait painter active in England in the reign of Elizabeth I.[1]
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.[3] 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.[4] 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.[1][4]
Custodis's unsigned but dated works are identified by "palaeographical peculiarities"[5] in the inscriptions which can be closely matched to those in his signed portraits.[1]
Characteristic inscription by Custodis, from the signed and dated portrait of Elizabeth Brydges
GalleryEdit
Edward Talbot, later 8th Earl of Shrewsbury, dated 1586
^Attribution 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[1]. Portrait of Mary Rogers.
ReferencesEdit
Hearn, Karen, ed. Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630. New York: Rizzoli, 1995. ISBN0-8478-1940-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. , Weiss Gallery, London.
External linksEdit
Media related to Hieronimo Custodis at Wikimedia Commons
12 artworks by or after Hieronimo Custodis at the Art UK site
August 29, 2023
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