Paul van Somer I

According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, van Somer lived between 1612 and 1614 in the house of Steven de Gheyn in Leiden, during 1616 in Brussels, and after that moved to London, where he became court painter.

[10] A curiosity of van Somer's oeuvre is his portrait of Elizabeth Drury (1596–1610), a girl made famous by John Donne's poems on her death, such as "An Anatomy of the World".

[11] Van Somer may have painted the portrait several years after Elizabeth's death, or possibly during her visit to the continent with her parents shortly before she died.

[14] Copies of van Somer's royal portraits were often commissioned, particularly as James disliked sitting for painters, to be sent as gifts overseas.

[16] Van Somer had by then become Anne's favourite painter, supplanting John de Critz and Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.

When she died in 1619 she owed him £170, and he joined her funeral procession as her "picture maker" with the artists Marcus Gheeraerts and Peter Oliver.