PATRIXBOURNE PARISH MEETING A.G.M.

The Annual General Meeting will take place at
The Berton, Patrixbourne on Wednesday, April Zlst, at
7.30 p.m. Plans for the Bridge By—Pass are now in course
of preparation and there will be u map available at the
meeting showing the approximate route of the by—pass
which passes through the parish.

SOME VILLAGE NOTES

 Cornelius
Jensen
 If one goes into the chancel of Bridge
Church there is a tcrtreit cn the left
which is attributed to Jensen the Seven~
teenth Century Court painter; his full name tie Jornelius
Jsnssen van Ceulen and his family origirtlly -ene from
Mnastricht. He was born in London in lE93 uxc was
baptised at the Dutch church. In l6l3 he began practis-
ing as a portrait painter in Blachfriars and 'sequently
in 1636 came to live in Bridge with Sir Arnold Erames
and his family who were also partly Dutch and who czne
from Breda; from Bridge Place he set out to paint the
portraits of various County families; locally there
were the AUFhuTS of Bridge and Disfles from Chilhan Jistle
and furtherocfield the most famousoare his family groups
of the Rushouts, Lucjs ani Verneys. He is remembered
principally foritwo reasons, firstly for his famous
r trait of Milton the poet aged lO and secondly for his
"" IEDOG of painting on Van Dyk. He wfls certainly
\ emely successful in his likenesses and his portraits
are always characterised by deep and brown shadows. On
lOth. October 1643 he left Bridge for Dover and sailed
to Flushing and he went to live in Niddleburg as the
Civil War hud broken out. In that city it is recorded
he became a mcnber of ‘the Guild of St. Luke and many
leading citizens from The Hague cane to have their
portraits painted by him.’ He died in Utrecht in l664.
He had married Elizabeth Beke of Oolchcster in l622
and they had one son who was also 3 painter and an example
of his worh a portrait of William III may be seen in the
National Portrait Gallery. JcHS@H was one of many who