A new portrait of Nicholas Lanier HEBBERT, Benjamin

RESUMEN: Nicholas Lanier´s importance to English music, as the first English musician to compose in the stile recitivo, and as the first Master of the King´s Music, is mirrored in his involvement with the visual arts. As a connoisseur of painting, he was one of the king´s main advisors as Charles I assembled one of the great art collections of history. This article examines a newly uncovered portrait of Lanier painted in 1613, the year in which he performed stile recitivo for the first time in the Somerser Masque, and explores the manner in which he sought to communicate his identity as a musician through the medium of the visual arts. Keywords: Nocholas Lanier; Hendrick van Steenwick; Hubert le Seur; lute-playing; paintings of musicians; recitativa.