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HOSKINS, JOHN (d. 1664)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 791 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOSKINS, See also:JOHN (d. 1664) , See also:English See also:miniature painter, the See also:uncle of See also:Samuel See also:Cooper, who received his See also:artistic See also:education in Hoskins's See also:house. His finest miniatures are at See also:Ham House, See also:Montagu House, See also:Windsor See also:Castle, See also:Amsterdam and in the Pierpont See also:Morgan collection. See also:Vertue stated that Hoskins had a son, and See also:Redgrave added that the son painted a portrait of See also:James II. in 1686 and was paid IO, 5s. for it, a statement for which there must have been some See also:evidence, although it is not supported by any reference in the See also:State Papers. Some contemporary See also:inscriptions on the miniatures at Ham House See also:record them as the See also:work of "Old Hoskins," but the fact of the existence of a younger artist of the same name is settled by a miniature in the Pierpont Morgan collection, signed by Hoskins, and bearing an See also:authentic engraved inscription on its contemporary See also:frame to the effect that it represents the See also:duke of See also:Berwick at the See also:age of twenty-nine in 1700. The See also:elder Hoskins was buried on the 22nd of See also:February 1664, in St See also:Paul's, Covent See also:Garden, and as there is no doubt of the authenticity of this miniature or of the See also:signature upon it, it is evident that he had a son who survived him See also:thirty-six years and whose See also:monogram we find upon this portrait. The frame of it has also the royal coat of arms de bruised, the batons of a See also:marshal of See also:France, the See also:collar of the See also:Golden Fleece and the ducal coronet. (G. C.

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