Edmund Ashfield

Vertue mentions a neatly painted head by him of Sir John Bennett (afterwards Lord Ossulston).

A surviving portrait of Mrs Amphilis Broughton, daughter of Sir Henry Tichborne, is dated precisely 1674.

[3] He also appears to have been also a copyist, for there are portraits of Frances, Countess of Warwick, and of Mary, Lady Herbert (later Duchess of Richmond and Lennox), after Van Dyck, which Graves notes are finished with extreme delicacy.

[2] Graves opines that his crayon drawings were highly finished, and characterised by the harmonious blending of the tints, of which he multiplied the number and variety, black and white only having hitherto chiefly been employed, the paper forming the middle tint.

His pupils included Edward Lutterell (c. 1650–1710), whose works in crayons Graves says are superior to those of his teacher, and Garret Morphy (c.1655–1715).