Nor can it be said that the numerous portraits which Cornelis Janssen
van Ceulen (1593-1664?) undertook in England, give signs of the new
artistic impulse which was daily manifesting itself in Holland in the
early works of Frans Hals. Janssen, who was baptized at the Dutch
Reformed Church, Austin Friars, London, throve until the establishment
in England of Van Dyck, before whom he quickly had to give way;
although he withdrew to Kent and lived in retirement, he did not
receive the Speaker’s warrant to pass beyond seas until 1643. That
“Cornelius Johnson Picture Drawer” made use of pallid flesh tones and
lifeless grey tones, is obvious from the two portraits (No. 2338 and
No. 2339) exhibited in the Louvre.
The very modern looking _Portrait of a Young Man_ (No. 2303A), signed
“D. BAILLY,” is officially held to be the work of a Leyden painter of
that name who would appear to have been a contemporary of Cornelis
Janssen.