# Thomas Capp

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'''Thomas Capp''' or '''Cappe''' (died 1635) was a London-based painter and gilder.

==Background==
Records of Capp's work indicate that he often worked painting and gilding furniture. He became a master of the Painter and Stainer's company in 1621. His father, also Thomas Capp, was a painter in London,<ref>Edward Town, 'A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547–1625', ''Walpole Society'', 76 (London, 2014), p. 50.</ref> and signed a petition of the Painter and Stainer's company in 1578.<ref>''Calendar State Papers Domestic'' (London, 1856), no. 28, TNA SP 12/125 f.59.</ref>

==Works==
In January 1610 he was paid for painting chairs and stools for [Anne of Denmark](/source/Anne_of_Denmark) and working on some velvet curtains.<ref>Edward Town, 'A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547–1625', ''Walpole Society'', 76 (London, 2014), p. 51.</ref> After her death in 1619, Capp and seven associates petitioned [King James](/source/James_VI_and_I) for payment of £1600 for household work supplied to the queen. His co-petitioners were; William Thompson, joiner; Isobell Shawe and [Christopher Shawe](/source/Christopher_Shawe), embroiderers; Jasper Heely, silkman; John Salusbury, Thomas Edwards and Gilbert Hart upholsterers.<ref>[Mary Anne Everett Green](/source/Mary_Anne_Everett_Green), ''Calendar State Papers Domestic, James I: 1619-1623'' (London, 1858), no. 73: TNA SP14/107 f.106r.</ref>

Among the petitioners, the embroiderers were a couple, Christopher Shawe and Isobel Buttes had married in 1589. Christopher Shawe was an embroiderer to Anne of Denmark and [King James](/source/James_VI_and_I).<ref>Joseph Foster & Joseph Lemuel Chester, ''London Marriage Licences, 1521-1869'' (London, 1887), p. 1211: ''Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1640-1'' (London, 1882), no. 11.</ref> Shawe embroidered costume for the masque, ''[Tethys' Festival](/source/Tethys'_Festival)'', work described as, "against the [Prince](/source/Henry_Frederick%2C_Prince_of_Wales) his highness creation for a maske".<ref>''HMC Salisbury Hatfield'', vol. 21 (London, 1970), p. 287: ''CSP Domestic, James I: 1603-1610'' (London, 1857), p. 656 no. 12: TNA SP14/59 f.14.</ref> Thomas Edwards converted [caparisons](/source/caparisons) into wall hangings for [Lady Anne Clifford](/source/Lady_Anne_Clifford) and [Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset](/source/Richard_Sackville%2C_3rd_Earl_of_Dorset) for use in a [long gallery](/source/long_gallery).<ref>Jessica L. Malay, ''Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676'' (Manchester, 2018), p. 91.</ref>

At this time furniture was decorated with decorated with painted and gilt [arabesque](/source/arabesque) patterns, such work was called "rebesking" in accounts.<ref>[Howard Colvin](/source/Howard_Colvin), ''The History of the King's Works'', 4:2 (London: HMSO, 1982), p. 142.</ref> Capp painted furniture for [Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex](/source/Lionel_Cranfield%2C_1st_Earl_of_Middlesex), some pieces "laid red and wrought with white", working with [Oliver Browne](/source/Oliver_Browne) and John Baker.<ref>Edward Town & Olivia Fryman, [https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/52160/page/35 'A rich inheritance: Lionel Cranfield's legacy at Knole', ''National Trust Historic Houses and Collections Annual'', Apollo (2016), pp. 35-7]</ref> He painted and gilded with gold and silver a bed provided by the draper Hugh Goddard for [Robert Spencer, 1st Baron Spencer](/source/Robert_Spencer%2C_1st_Baron_Spencer_of_Wormleighton).<ref>Edward Town, 'A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547–1625', ''Walpole Society'', 76 (London, 2014), p. 51.</ref> Capp supplied four "tops" or finials to a bed at [Belvoir Castle](/source/Belvoir_Castle) for [Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland](/source/Francis_Manners%2C_6th_Earl_of_Rutland) in March 1620.<ref>''HMC Rutland'', vol. 4 (London, 1904), p. 519.</ref>

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Category:17th-century English painters
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Category:Household of Anne of Denmark

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