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Updated: May 16, 2025

This gave rise to the courtier-saying that Philip 'made slaves of his friends, and friends of his painters. Another is Zucchero, one of the painters who was requested by Queen Elizabeth to paint her picture without shade, the result being 'a woman with a Roman nose, a huge ruff and farthingale, and a bushel of pearls. There are also Van Somer, Janssens, who painted Lady Bowyer, named for her exquisite beauty, 'The star of the East, and Susanna Lister, the most beautiful woman at court, when presented in marriage to Sir Geoffrey Thornhurst by James I, in person, and Daniel Myttens, all foreigners, Flemish or Dutch, whom we must thus briefly dismiss.

Sarah Tytler - The Old Masters and Their Pictures: For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art