Artists of The Tudor Court - Payments

Payments

The royal accounts for the period survive, but are not always easy to interpret. Payments often covered expensive materials, and in many cases the wages of assistants had to be paid out of them. Some regular annuities, usually supplemented by payments for specific works, are given below. But recipients were expected to give works to the monarch, at New Year or on their birthday.

Royal annuities:

  • Lucas Hornebolte (scholarly dissention) £33 6s or £62 10s from 1525 "until his death"
  • Hans Holbein £30 (but he did more work outside the court)
  • Levina Teerlinc £40
  • Nicholas Hilliard received £400 as a gift in 1591, and an annuity of £40 from 1599; he typically charged £3 for a non-royal miniature.

The sums spent on metalwork, building palaces, and by Henry on tapestries, dwarfed these figures.

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