- GB 2014 WS-03-PIC-001/79
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- [16th Century]
One Black Jack is emobssed with a stylised grape cluster.
One Black Jack is emobssed with a stylised grape cluster.
Queen Elizabeth I by a member of the English School
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, bust-length, wearing a white dress and jewelled veil. Inscribed 'Queen Elisabeth' on the cartellino upper left.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton after Cornelis Jonson
Bust length, in a black doublet with white lace collar and later inscription on painted oval.
Johnson, Cornelius, 1593-1661
John Williams attributed to Gilbert Jackson
Three-quarters length portrait of Williams, who stands turned to the right wearing black robes with a white ruff, black hat and moustache; his right hand rests horizontally across his stomach while his left hand drops to its natural position. On the right of the picture is Williams' coat of arms, inscribed with the identity of the sitter and the date of 1621.
Possibly a variant of a portrait of 1627 by Jackson at St John's College, Cambridge.
Jackson, Gilbert, c.1595-after 1648
Dyed, painted silk, on a hessian backing. On the left the arms of the Commonwealth: the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew and the Irish harp and in escutcheon a lion rampant guardant for Cromwell. On the right are the quarterings of his wife. Inscribed verso with: 'this ensign was snatched from the bier of the tyrant Oliver Cromwell, when his waxen effigy, adorned with royal state, was being magnificently displayed in the Church of St. Peter, Westminster'.
John Locke by a member of the English School
Life size portrait of Locke, whose head is inclined slightly to the left; he wears an open shirt and partially buttoned waistcoat; his hair is parted at the centre.
Royal Pardon for the King's Scholars
Issued for the King's Scholars involved in manslaughter in 1679. Black and red ink on vellum; bearing the Royal Seal
John Locke by a member of the English School
Half length, wearing brown robes. Oil on canvas, in a painted oval English School after Sir Godfrey Kneller, unfinished
William Freind by Thomas Bardwell
Reverend William Freind (1714-66) as a scholar aged 13, in a carved wooden frame; he is standing in a library wearing a scholar's gown. Freind had four children, the youngest of whom John, succeeded to the estates of his maternal uncle, Richard Robinson, Bishop of Armagh, Baron Rokeby, to become Sir John Robinson.
Bardwell, Thomas, 1704-1767
William Markham after Sir Joshua Reynolds
Markham is seated, holding a stick in his left hand, facing half to the left, wearing a white wig; a red curtain is draped behind him. Inscribed with: 'Wm Markham D.D. 1753-64'.