Half-length oil portrait of Dean Nowell, possibly 1550-1599. Dean Nowell was a celebrated preacher, who often took the pulpit both at court (where he gave the first in the Lenten series of sermons every year from 1561 to 1592) and at Paul's Cross. Following the defeat of the Spanish Armada he preached before the mayor and aldermen of London at Paul's Cross on 20 August 1588, and then in the cathedral on 8 September following when captured Spanish flags were displayed.
