Hans Eworth (Flemish, active England, 1545–73/74)

As 'Jan Euworts', he is recorded as a freeman of the artists' Guild of St Luke in Antwerp in 1540.¹

Hans Eworth was recorded as a freeman of the artists' Guild of St Luke in Antwerp in 1540.¹

A 'Jan and Nicholas Ewouts, painter and mercer' were expelled from Antwerp for heresy in 1544 and scholars generally accept that this Jan is the same individual.¹

By 1545 Eworth was resident in London.¹

MarEworth's earliest surviving works... include the allegorical portrait of Sir John Luttrell... commemorating Luttrell's military exploits and the Treaty of Boulogne (24 March 1550) which finally brought peace between England, Scotland, and France after the long wars known as the Rough Wooing.¹

Although there is no direct evidence that Eworth's most important patron was the Catholic queen Mary I... However, after Mary I's death and the change of the political and religious atmosphere with the accession of Elizabeth I, Eworth in 1560 painted the Protestant Martyr Anne Askew.¹

Eworth was also engaged in decorative work; he was involved in the set design for a masque given by Elizabeth I in honor of the French Ambassador in 1572.¹