(b c. 1620–30; d after 1692). English miniaturist, son of John Hoskins (the elder). He is recorded as a limner in his own right and by c. 1657 had his own studio. It has been suggested that he was responsible for most of the miniatures signed ih from c. 1645, and that his father was by then in semi-retirement. The stylistic arguments are not decisive, however, and it is remarkable that there are no works that can be assigned to him on this basis after 1658, seven years before his father’s death. Whatever the answer, from the late 1630s a connected run of miniatures shows that the achievements of van Dyck were being assimilated into the tradition of English miniature painting. It is exemplified by the portraits of Katherine Howard, Lady d’Aubigny (c. 1640; London, V&A) and Edward, 2nd Viscount Conway (1653; London, Wallace). These are distinguished from the mature work of Samuel Cooper by their use of stippling and absence of strong accents and by their greater reticence in the interpretation of character. These works had as their successors the miniatures of Nicholas Dixon and Peter Cross....