The four figures wearing ruffs and holding prayer books on the right are Thomas More II, his wife and their oldest and youngest sons.
[7] His signed portrait of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, based on a work by Meynnart Wewyck (Maynard Vewicke) was presented to St John's College, Cambridge in 1598.
Subjects named in the accounts include pictures of Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir William Maynard, and his wife Frances.
The surviving Hardwick pictures include portraits of Bess herself and of King James I of England as a young boy, based on a 1574 painting by Arnold Bronckorst.
[13] The art historian Sir Roy Strong has identified a number of inferior copies of Hilliard's portrait miniatures as probably the work of Lockey, pointing out their "weak and laboured brushstrokes" and "smudgy" features.