Stephen Hopkins, "Mayflower" Passenger - painting

Is this an actual painting of Stephen Hopkins?

That is from a painting by Mike Haywood which was used on the cover of the Hopkins biography, "Here Shill I Die Ashore" - which I strongly recommend for anybody interested in Stephen Hopkins. It is not of Hopkins directly, but rather what Haywood thinks he might have looked like.

In any case it does look much nicer that the generic head :p!

Pretty cool some of us even ponders these things any more … and that it does still matter :)

Too bad that no limners, i. e. unschooled portrait painters that worked in the colonies, were along on the Mayflower or any early migration as far as I know.

Mike Haywood assured me years ago in an email that this was “a generic man of the time”.