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185: 203:(V&A D6 1896). The drawings are by three or four artists. A link to Lulls and his workshop is provided by an inscription in Dutch which says a jewel was an undesirable colour and could not be sold, so it would be returned to "my brother Peter Lulls and company", signed by "AL". The manuscript also includes a royal warrant to Lulls and Herrick from 1605. 206:
Such drawings were made as record drawings for inventories, or for use within a business as the Lulls inscription demonstrates, or when wealthy patrons commissioned jewels. Some of drawings in the Lulls album depict gems at actual size. A letter sent to Arthur Bodren, a page of Anne of Denmark,
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was a witness to the marriage settlement. Tonstal may have made an introduction between the apparently wealthy goldsmith and a gentry family in some financial difficulty. There were difficulties with the payment of the dowry, and a court case, suggesting that Lulls at this time was in financial
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An account for jewels supplied by Lulls and Spilman to the royal family between August 1604 and March 1607 totals £2,772. Another list of jewels supplied by Lulls and Spilman includes items with the monograms "AR" and "JR" with thistles.
161:, in 1646. Her will includes a bequest to Sara Lulls of her personal jewellery including a pair of earrings each set with five diamonds. Her sister Mary Blackwell was given a treble ruby ring, a gold picture of 27:
He was born in Antwerp, and settled in London before 1585, and became a denizen of England in 1618. Lulls was also involved in importing goods with other members of the family, his brothers Peter Lulls of
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Feather jewels were popular in the early 17th-century and frequently appear in portraits. Designs in the Lulls album for aigrettes or feather jewels have been associated with a portrait by
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Arnold Lulls and a business partner, Jacques de Beste, a relation of his first wife, were fined in 1619 for exporting gold and silver and his fine was given to Sir James Erskine.
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of the right size to suit a pattern drawn by a Mr Halle. John Spilman made record drawings of the cut and settings of eleven diamonds which Anne of Denmark pawned in March 1615.
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had a feather jewel made up with 26 large diamonds and smaller stones which he wore on his hat. The jewel was depicted in several portraits following a pattern of
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Arnold Lulls married Susanna de Beste (died 1597). Their son, also Arnold Lulls, died in 1618 and left a legacy of £10 to his "cousin", Jane van Lore, daughter of
19:(floruit 1580–1625) was a Flemish goldsmith and jeweller in London. He served the court and made several pieces intended as diplomatic gifts. 154:, the Newdigate family home, in the 1620s. Arnold Lulls wrote to John and Susannah on the death or miscarriage of her second child in 1623. 77:. A bill from February 1605 includes, a rope of oriental pearls and a large round pearl for Anne of Denmark, a chain and St George for 701: 51: 256: 86: 41: 101: 62:
received a jewel set with diamonds worth about £230 supplied by Lulls. The ambassador bought most of the jewels in Brussels.
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Lulls is associated with an album of 17th-century goldsmith's drawings of jewels, on paper and on vellum, held by the
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was paid £980 for jewels set with diamonds and two dozen buttons given to Anne of Denmark at the baptism of
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After the death of John Newdigate, Susannah married Simon Edwards, a London haberdasher and member of the
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Roy Strong, 'Three Royal Jewels: The Three Brothers, the Mirror of Great Britain and the Feather,
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Carmen García-Frías Checa, 'The Pictorial Representation of Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain',
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In May 1607 he and several residents in Billingsgate were exempted from paying a tax or subsidy.
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John Hayward, 'The Arnold Lulls Book of Jewels and the Court Jewellers of Anne of Denmark',
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John Hayward, 'The Arnold Lulls Book of Jewels and the Court Jewellers of Anne of Denmark',
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John Hayward, 'The Arnold Lulls Book of Jewels and the Court Jewellers of Anne of Denmark',
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John Hayward, 'The Arnold Lulls Book of Jewels and the Court Jewellers of Anne of Denmark',
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John Hayward, 'The Arnold Lulls Book of Jewels and the Court Jewellers of Anne of Denmark',
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John Hayward, 'The Arnold Lulls Book of Jewels and the Court Jewellers of Anne of Denmark',
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John Hayward, 'The Arnold Lulls Book of Jewels and the Court Jewellers of Anne of Denmark',
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Gossip from a Muniment Room: being passages in the Lives of Anne and Mary Fytton, 1574–1618
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Lulls album, design for a feather or aigrette (or bodkin) with emeralds and rubies
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emblems of a diamond double eagle and golden fleece to her in Madrid in May 1605.
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showing a woman, possibly Elizabeth, Countess of Kellie wearing a feather or
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Gustav Ungerer, 'Juan Pantoja de la Cruz and the Circulation of Gifts',
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Michael Snowdin, 'Album of jewellery drawings', Anna Somers Cocks,
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Wealth, Kinship, and Culture: The 17th-Century Newdigates of Arbury
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Wealth, Kinship, and Culture: The 17th-Century Newdigates of Arbury
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Wealth, Kinship, and Culture: The 17th-Century Newdigates of Arbury
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Wealth, Kinship, and Culture: The 17th-Century Newdigates of Arbury
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Wealth, Kinship, and Culture: The 17th-Century Newdigates of Arbury
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Wealth, Kinship, and Culture: The 17th-Century Newdigates of Arbury
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Lulls also made a jewel for Anne of Denmark intended as a gift for
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Historical Account of Those Parishes in the County of Middlesex
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difficulty himself. A sister, Margreit Lulls, was a visitor at
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Diana Scarisbrick, 'Anne of Denmark's Jewellery Inventory',
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describes efforts to find diamonds and rubies in the royal
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In 1604 he provided jewels to the Spanish ambassador, the
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His daughter Susan or Susannah Lulls (1597–1654) married
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Hat Jewel or Aigrette, Waddesdon Bequest, British Museum
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Lulls album, designs for two feather jewels or aigrettes
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Princely Magnificence: Court Jewels of the Renaissance
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Princely Magnificence: Court Jewels of the Renaissance
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Lulls album, p. 49 with Dutch inscription signed "AL"
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HMC Laing Manuscripts in the University of Edinburgh
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and Hans or Jehan Lulls. In 1597 they complained to
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(This Countess of Kellie was not the 87:Christophe de Harlay, Count of Beaumont 679: 111:In May 1605 Lulls was paid £1,550 and 102:Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham 475:(Woodbridge: Boydell, 1995), p. 106. 54:to give to the ladies in waiting of 501:(Woodbridge: Boydell, 1995), p. 49. 488:(Woodbridge: Boydell, 1995), p. 97. 449:(London: David Nutt, 1897), p. 154. 98:Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain 13: 14: 713: 665: 702:Material culture of royal courts 313:, vol. 1 (London, 1914), p. 122. 301:, vol. 14 (London, 1923), p. 11. 648: 637: 624: 611: 599: 586: 573: 560: 547: 534: 521: 504: 491: 478: 465: 452: 439: 426: 413: 373:, 27:3 (December 2022), p. 197. 358:SP. Domestic James I, 1607-1610 239:, called Elizabeth Pierrepont, 658:, 108:760 (July 1966), p. 351. 445:Anne Emily Garnier Newdegate, 397: 376: 363: 346: 329: 316: 304: 292: 279: 253:Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar 179: 1: 272: 145:, in June 1621. 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Index

Hamburg
Sir Robert Cecil
Earl of Cumberland
Count of Villamediana
Anne of Denmark
Elizabeth de Vere
John Spilman
William Herrick
jewels to the royal family
Prince Henry
Prince Charles
Christophe de Harlay, Count of Beaumont
Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham
Habsburg
Philip Jacobson
Princess Mary
Peter Vanlore
John Newdigate
Anne Fitton
Sir John Tonstal
Arbury Hall
Levant Company
Elizabeth I
St Michael's
Tilehurst
Victoria and Albert Museum

Paul van Somer
aigrette

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