Prolific and successful in his own lifetime, and Picture drawer to Charles I, Cornelius Johnson (1593¿1661) is now the forgotten man of seventeenth-century British art. This is the first book ever to address his life and work. Johnson's surviving works, all portraits, are found in most public collections in Britain and in many private collections seen on the walls of British country houses, in the possession of descendants of the original sitt...
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