Valentine Jenkin

[6] The painted freize is visible (with some restoration) within the chapel, and external paintwork has left discernible traces and shadows on the courtyard façade.

[7] Materials bought for Jenkin and his team of painters at Stirling in 1617 included, red lead, florey (a kind of indigo), umber, linseed oil, skins for making glue size, butter, and jars called "pigs".

[11] Jenkin rode from Stirling to paint and gild three great carved oak heraldic panels for the exterior of the gate house of Falkland Palace in 1629.

[13] The 19th-century writers on genealogy and heraldry R. R. Stodart and G. Harvey Johnston refer to a manuscript known as the "Valentine Jenkins' Collection" or the Armes of "Vallentyn Jenkyns" in connection with family of Hamilton of Innerwick.

[14][15] Stacie, originally from Nottingham, also acquired an armorial manuscript compiled by James Workman and another from the widow of John Sawers (National Library of Scotland Adv.

Some decorative painters based in London worked in Scotland, including Edward Arthur, George Crawford, and Matthew Goodrick.

Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle showing the frieze or border painted by Valentine Jenkin in 1628. [ 2 ]
Valentine Jenkins painted and gilded the weathervane of the Glasgow Tolbooth in 1627
At Kinneil , heraldic painting attributed to Valentine Jenkin is shown as a palimpsest with earlier work.