William Portington
William Portington (1544-1628) was an English carpenter and joiner, originally from St Albans, employed by Elizabeth I and James VI and I. He was master carpenter of the Office of Works.[1]
Career and works
Portington was employed by Sir Nicholas Bacon, the Lord Keeper, for his buildings on Fetter Lane. Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey and Sir Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave paid him £20 in May 1579.[2]
Portington was employed in April and May 1603 during preparations for the
Portington worked for Robert Cecil at his London house in the Strand,[4] and is thought to have made the Great Hall screen at Knole for Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset.[5]
He made
In 1607, Portington was involved in the construction of a new
He built the "hearse" or catafalque in Westminster Abbey for the funeral of Prince Henry in 1612.[9]
Portington owned a house in St Martin's Lane, which he let to the crown for the use of the painter Daniël Mijtens.
His portrait was given to the London Company of Ironmongers by Matthew Bankes in 1637.[10] The picture shows him with dividers and compass.[11]
References
- ^ Oliver Garnett, Living in Style: A Guide to Historic Decoration and Ornament (National Trust, 2002), p. 80: Howard Colvin, History of the King's Works, 3:1 (HMSO, 1963), p. 101.
- ^ A. Hassell Smith, Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, vol. 2 (Norwich, 1983), pp. 74-5.
- ^ HMC Laing Manuscripts, vol. 1 (London, 1914): Edinburgh University, Laing II 636.
- ^ J. F. Merritt, The social world of early modern Westminster: Abbey, court and community (Manchester, 2005), p. 120.
- ^ Robert Sackville-West, The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles (Bloomsbury, 2010), p. 19.
- ^ John Pitcher, 'Samuel Daniel's Masque "The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses": Texts and Payments', Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 26 (2013), pp. 17-42 citing TNA LR6/154/9.
- ^ Jennifer Potter, Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants (Atlantic, 2014).
- ^ John Orrell, 'Architecture of the Fortune Playhouse', Shakespeare Survey, 47 (Cambridge, 1992), 17.
- ^ Anthony Harvey & Richard Mortimer, The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey (Boydell, 1994), p. 60.
- ^ A Catalogue of the Antiquities and Works of Art Exhibited at Ironmongers (London, 1863), p. 219.
- ^ Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, 'Material Memories of the Guildsmen: Crafting Identities in Early Modern London', Erika Kuijpers, Judith Pollmann, Johannes Mueller, Jasper van der Steen, Memory before Modernity: Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2013), pp. 181-2.
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