Rowland Lockey - Other Paintings

Other Paintings

His signed portrait of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, was presented to St John's College, Cambridge in 1598, and a portrait of King James I of England as a young boy, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London, based on a 1574 painting by Arnold Bronckorst, is also attributed to Lockey

Lockey was long associated with the Cavendish family of Hardwick Hall, working under the patronage of Bess of Hardwick between 1591 and 1597 and of her son Sir William Cavendish between 1608 and 1613.

The art historian Sir Roy Strong has identified a number of inferior copies of Hilliard's portrait miniatures as probably the work of Lockey, pointing out their "weak and laboured brushstrokes" and "smudgy" features. Strong concludes that while Lockey was of "no significance as an artist" when compared to his brilliant fellow-apprentice to Hilliard Isaac Oliver, his importance lies in carrying Hilliard's aesthetic into the next generation.