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Title: Historical portraits; some notes on the painted portraits of celebrated characters of England, Scotland and Ireland
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917
Subjects: Portrait painters
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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y summons to surrender, a good subjeclfor a painter, which has been described as follows : 1644, April 25th. On Thursday, he (Rigby)sends his last message, as he calls it, a furioussummons to her ladyship to yield up LathomHouse, all the persons, goods and arms within itinto his hands, to receive the mercy of Parliament,and to return her final answer the next day beforetwo oclock ; which her ladyship having read,with a brave indignation calls for the drum, andtells him a due reward for his pains is to behanged up at her gates; but, says she, 1 thouart but a foolish instrument of a traitors pride ;carry this answer to Rigby/ (with a double scorntearing the paper in his sight) and • tell that in-solent rebel he shall neither have persons, goods,nor house: when our strength and provision isspent, we shall find a fire more merciful thanRigby, and then, if the providence of God preventit not, my goods and home shall burn in his sight :myself, children, and soldiers, rather than fall into
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OLIVER CROMWELL, BY R. WALKER. SOVEREIGNS AND THEIR COURTS 171 his hands will seal our religion and loyalty in thesame flame. 1 During the Commonwealth there were severalportrait-painters of merit, and the portraits paintedduring the period prove how mistaken is thecommon idea that all the Parliamentary leadershad their heads cropped. Cromwell, by RobertWalker, and Lambert by the same, at the NationalPortrait Gallery, have long hair, and John Pymhas flowing brown hair in the portrait lent by SirHenry Wilmot to the South Kensington Exhibi-tion of 1866. Cromwell told the painter to whom he sat notto slur over any blemish, but to represent everywart and wrinkle on his face. Some say thispainter was Cooper, but Granger says it was Lely. Coopers miniatures of Cromwell are perfect,and they were so much admired that there was aconsiderable demand for them. On one occasionCromwell found Cooper surreptitiously copyingone for sale, and he forbade the practice. Granger says that in a print of Ch

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