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    Little more is known of Scrots other than that his paintings showed an interest in ingenious techniques and detailed accessories. Scrots was paid 50 marks in...
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    from the same pattern, is now thought likely to be by a follower of William Scrots. The background inscription gives Edward's age as six, but this has...
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  • Holbein the Younger, he was considered to be in the same category as William Scrots, John Bettes and Levina Teerlinc. p.156, Linda Porter, Katherine the...
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    Archduke Maximilian, portrait by William Scrots, about 1544...
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    good counsel. She depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers led by William Cecil, whom she created Baron Burghley. One of her first actions as queen...
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    of a work, as in the case of the anamorphic portrait of Edward VI by William Scrots, Patrick Branwell Brontë's painting of his sisters Charlotte, Emily...
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    from the more sensuous technique of Titian, and from the Mannerism of William Scrots, Holbein's successor as King's Painter. Holbein's portraiture, particularly...
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    of William Hampden of the Hill and his wife Audrey Hampden, an heiress of Kimble. Her aunt, Sibill Hampden, married Thomas Hawtrey, whose son William Hawtrey...
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    many enemies at court. Howard himself branded Cromwell a "foul churl" and William Paget a "mean creature" as well as arguing that "These new erected men...
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    influence, which also appears in some immigrant portrait painters, such as William Scrots, but generally England was one of the countries least affected by the...
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