Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 1546. Attributed to William Scrots.
William (or Guillim) Scrots (or Scrotes or Stretes; active 1537–1553)[1] was a painter of the Tudor court and an exponent of the Mannerist style of painting in the Netherlands.[2]
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...
from the same pattern, is now thought likely to be by a follower of WilliamScrots. The background inscription gives Edward's age as six, but this has...
Holbein the Younger, he was considered to be in the same category as WilliamScrots, John Bettes and Levina Teerlinc. p.156, Linda Porter, Katherine the...
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...
from the more sensuous technique of Titian, and from the Mannerism of WilliamScrots, Holbein's successor as King's Painter. Holbein's portraiture, particularly...
influence, which also appears in some immigrant portrait painters, such as WilliamScrots, but generally England was one of the countries least affected by the...
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...
painter, probably in England c. 1527–1532, before leaving for Italy William or Guillim Scrots, employed by Henry VIII from at least 1545 and retained by Edward...
said to have originated in Northamptonshire and to be descended from Sir William de Butevillar. At the time of John's birth, the family seat had been, for...
by Elizabeth I. By 1581, the school had 360 pupils and was described by William Camden in 1582 as "the best filled [school] in all England"; the population...
Godfrey Kneller – William III on Horseback, 1701; Hampton Court Beauties, 1690s. Sir Peter Lely – Windsor Beauties, 1660s. WilliamScrots – Edward VI, c...
oblique (perspective) and catoptric (mirror) anamorphosis. Hurwitz names WilliamScrots, Hans Holbein, M. C. Escher and Da Vinci as influences. In his online...
studio of Giovanni Domenico Angelini to set up as an independent artist. WilliamScrots' anamorphic portrait of King Edward VI of England causes a sensation...
that year). It descended to his nephew Sir William (died 1320), and in 1348 was passed in trust for William's great-granddaughter Margaret Bovile. The manor...
with Saint Michael Lorenzo Lotto – San Giacomo dell'Orio Altarpiece WilliamScrots Anamorphic portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales Henry Howard Earl of...
and Albert Museum, E.1170-1988 Edward VI by Levina Teerlinc. After WilliamScrots's portrait of the young King of c. 1550 Amy Robsart – The Beaufort Miniature...
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