120 Hiistory of the Parish of Stockton, Wilts. 



once in the Council House, Salisbury, are now in the drawing 

 room of Mr. George Benson in the Close. 



John Greenhill the painter, was a pupil of Sir Peter Lely, and 

 is said to have excited by his talents the jealousy of his master. 

 He painted portraits of several of the eminent men of his time. 

 His portrait of Bishop Seth Ward, said to be a noble picture, is in 

 the Council House at Salisbury. It was painted in 1673. His 

 portrait of the philosopher John Locke, has been engraved in 

 Lord King's memoirs of Locke. He also painted Lord Shaftesbury 

 when Lord Chancellor, in 1672. There is an etching by him of 

 his younger brother Henry, dated 1667, in the British Museum, 

 and there is a portrait of John Greenhill, painted by himself, 

 bequeathed to Dulwich College by William Cartwright, of whom 

 there is also a portrait there by the same artist. This portrait of 

 John Greenhill is engraved in Dallaway's Edition of Walpole's 

 Anecdotes of Painting. Sir Peter Lely is said to have settled £40 

 a year on John Greenhill's widow, of whom nothing is known. 

 The painter appears to have been of dissipated habits. He was 

 found in a kennel in Long Acre, and died in the night of May 

 19th, 1676. His father, John, was at one time engaged in the 

 East India trade, and his Uncle Joshua Greenhill, described as a 

 merchant and soldier, died at Balasore in the East Indies, iu 1652. 

 (See History of Salisbury, in Hoare's Modern Wilts). 



Henry Greenhill, an officer in the Navy, had a 15s. ring at the 

 funeral of Samuel Pepys the Diarist. 



Near this monument is a black marble slab, sculptured with the 

 coat of arms of Greenhill, thus inscribed : — 



" Here lietli interred the body of Henry Greenhill, Esq. who departed this 

 life the 24th of May, 1708, aged 62 years." 



Before the repairs in the south aisle, this slab was nearly covered 

 by the floor of a pew. It was originally placed over only a part 

 of the brick grave in which the body lies. It was moved a little 

 towards the west, that it might be seen in the aisle, and still covers 

 as much of the grave as it did originally. Henry Greenhill left 

 £25 to the poor of the parish, and an account of the distribution 

 of it is given in the old Churchwarden's book. He was connected 



