Goldmining Story
According to a later account by Stephen Atkinson written in 1619, Bronckorst first appears in London, associated with English painter Nicholas Hilliard. With a third painter, Cornelius de Vos, they went to Scotland on business concerned with gold mining, meeting Regent Morton. According to Atkinson, the trio were arrested and unsuccessful in obtaining warrants for the export of gold, but Arnold was hired by Morton to paint portraits great and small of the young king (later James I of England.)
The involvement of Hilliard is doubted by his biographers. A Cornelius de Vos is recorded as a mineral prospector in Scotland in the period, not a painter.
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