Rowland Lockey (1565 - 1616)

• Was an English painter and goldsmith.
• The son of Leonard Lockey, a crossbow maker of the parish of St Bride's, Fleet Street, London.
• Lockey was apprenticed to Queen Elizabeth's miniaturist and goldsmith Nicholas Hilliard for eight years beginning Michaelmas 1581.
• Made a freeman or master of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths by 1600.

• Signed or documented portrait miniatures on vellum and a signed title page engraving for the 1602 Bishops' Bible also survive.

• Lockey was long associated with the Cavendish family of Hardwick Hall, working under the patronage of Bess of Hardwick between 1591 and 1597 and of her son Sir William Cavendish between 1608 and 1613.
• He produced around forty life-size pictures including copies of portraits of Cavendish's Elizabethan ancestors.
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