<div dir="ltr"><div><i>Bryan<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​'​</div>s Dictionary of Painters<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​ ​</div>and Engravers</i>  dated 1904 lists the double portrait as the work of the artist, Cornelius Neve.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">​<b style="color:rgb(38,39,39);font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana;font-size:1.3em;line-height:15.8399991989136px;margin:0px;padding:0px">Cornelius De Neve</b><span style="color:rgb(38,39,39);font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana;font-size:1.3em;line-height:15.8399991989136px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(38,39,39);font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana;font-size:1.3em;line-height:15.8399991989136px">(1612?-1678?)</span></div><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(38,39,39);font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:15.8399991989136px"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(38,39,39);font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:15.8399991989136px">Cornelius de Neve, portrait painter, is first recorded in a list of members of the Dutch church in London in 1594. Cornelius de Neve, portrait painter, lived in London with his Dutch father. When his father died, his stepmother married John de Critz the younger. In 1627 the Painter-Stainers' Company unsuccessfully attempted to prosecute de Neve along with other foreign artists for failing to obey the company's ordinances.</span><span style="color:rgb(38,39,39);font-family:arial,helvetica,verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:15.8399991989136px"> </span>​</div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">​<a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp06873/cornelius-de-neve">http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp06873/cornelius-de-neve</a>​</div><br></div></div>