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
John Burnet (painter) was finally awarded a fellowship to the Royal Society. As an engraver he provided illustrations for editions of Robert Burns’s poems and Walter Scott’s "Waverley" novels. He engraved copies of paintings of several notable portraits and artists. <br>He also wrote manuals and books on drawing, painting and artists, retiring from public life in 1860. He died in London. John Burnet (painter) John Burnet (March 1781 or 20 March 1784 – 29 April 1868) was a Scottish engraver and painter. Son of the Surveyor-General of Excise of Scotland, Burnet was born either in Edinburgh in 1781 or in Fisherrow in 1784.