Artists of the Tudor court of Holbein (1543) and Lucas Horenbout (1544), and would remain as court painter to Henry's son Edward VI and as painter and lady-in-waiting to both his daughters, Mary I and Elizabeth. Levina Teerlinc, in turn, taught the art of limning to Nicholas Hilliard, an apprentice goldsmith who would marry the daughter of Queen Elizabeth's jeweler and rise to become the supreme miniaturist of the age. John Bettes the Elder apprenticed his son, John the Younger to Hilliard. Hilliard's most famous student, Isaac Oliver, later limner to Anne of Denmark and Henry, Prince of Wales, was married to the niece of
Thomas Bott (painter) 1862 International Exhibition. Bott was attacked by paralysis in the beginning of 1869, and was unable to work from that time. He died on 13 December 1870. Attribution Thomas Bott (painter) Thomas Bott (1829–1870) was an English china painter. Bott was born near Kidderminster, and trained in his father's business of making spade handles. He took up drawing, and found work in a glass factory. He went to Birmingham and for two or three years was a portrait painter. From Birmingham Bott went in 1852 to Worcester, and became one of the main artists of the Royal Porcelain Works, being