BEN JOHNSON (1572-1637)

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AFTER ABRAHAM VAN BLYENBERCH
BEN JOHNSON (1572-1637)
oil on canvas, unframed
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
After the picture in the National Portrait Gallery, London (K.K. Yung, National Portrait Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1856-1979, London, 1981, p.311, no.2752).

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Ben Johnson (c.1572-1637) was a Renaissance dramatist, actor and poet. Best known for his plays Volpone and The Alchemist, he was a strong influence on Jacobean and Caroline poets. A friend and rival of William Shakespeare, and a man of invention and great wit, Johnson was a dominant influence in shaping English theatre following the reopening of the theatres that followed the restoration of Charles II.

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