Hieronimo Custodis

Hieronimo Custodis (also spelled Hieronymus, Heironimos) (died c. 1593) was a Flemish portrait painter active in England in the reign of Elizabeth I.

[1] A native of Antwerp, Custodis was one of many Flemish artists of the Tudor court who had fled to England to avoid the persecution of Protestants in the Spanish Netherlands.

[1] Three English portraits by Custodis signed and dated 1589 firmly establish him as resident in London by that year.

[3] In 1591, he was living in the parish of St Bodolph-without-Aldgate where "Jacobus the son of Ieronyme Custodis A Paynter" was baptised on 2 March.

[1][4] Custodis's unsigned but dated works are identified by "palaeographical peculiarities"[5] in the inscriptions which can be closely matched to those in his signed portraits.