CORNELIUS JOHNSON, ALSO KNOWN AS CORNELIS JANSSENS VAN CEULEN (LONDON 1593-1661 UTRECHT)
Portrait of Sir George Whitmore, Lord Mayor of London (1631-32), bust-length, wearing a black coat, fine lace collar, hair worn curled and natural within a feigned oval
oil on canvas
74 x 61 cm. (29 1/8 x 24 in.)

Provenance
From The Collection of F. H. D. C. Whitmore, Orset Hall, Grays, Essex,
thence by family decent

Literature
F. H. D. C. Whitmore, Orset Hall, Grays, Essex, listed on page 4 of the catalogue.

Cornelius Johnson (Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen) was born in London to Dutch or Flemish parents. Johnson's first known work was executed in 1617, from which he went on to have a successful career painting portraits of emerging English gentry. The sitter in the present example, Sir George Whitmore (died 1654) was Lord Mayor of London in 1631 and a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers.

References
Carlyle, E. I. (1900). "Whitmore, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. p. 142.