Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen the Elder (1593-1661),

• Cornelius Johnson or Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen also Cornelius Jonson van Ceulen was an English painter of portraits of Dutch or Flemish parentage.
• He was active in England, from at least 1618 to 1643, when he moved to Middelburg in the Netherlands to escape the English Civil War.
• Between 1646 and 1652 he lived in Amsterdam, before settling in Utrecht, where he died.
• His early portraits were panel paintings with "fictive" oval frames.
• He was one of the few artists in England at this time who consistently signed and dated their work.