Cornelis Jonson (London 1593-1661 Utrecht)

The Campions were key patrons of Cornelis Jonson, who specialised in half-length portraits of members of the gentry and professionals in London during the 1620s. Finberg records five portraits of the family dating between c. 1630 and 1637 (op. cit., nos. 42, 49, 50, 57 and 79). Finberg (ibid., no. 50) identified this sitter as the daughter of Sir William Stone and wife of Sir William Campion (1585-1640). Given the sitter's age however, she is more likely to be the second daughter of Sir William Campion and his wife, Elizabeth Stone. Sir William Campion increased the family's property by purchasing the site of the late dissolved monastery of nuns at Thetford. Henry Campion, Sir William's great-grandson, married Barbara, daughter and heir of Peter Courthope. On the death of his father-in-law in 1725, Henry Campion inherited Danny Park, Sussex, to which he carried out extensive alterations in 1728, giving the south side a completely new facade and making additions to the west.