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This portrait of Oliver Cromwell was painted around the time that King Charles I was executed, in 1649. The artist, Robert Walker, was an English portrait painter who was popular with Cromwell and the. Parliamentarians. Parliamentarian A person who supported Parliament during the English Civil Wars from 1642–51.
Oct 19, 2017 · Artist. Robert Walker (1599-1658), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 143 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits. Related works. NPG D28682: Oliver Cromwell (after) NPG D42993: Oliver Cromwell (after) Linked publications. 100 Portraits, p. 34. Smartify image discovery app.
A Portrait of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) by Robert Walker (1610-1658). Oil on canvas, 127cm by 101.6cm. Cromwell’s troops stormed Burghley House in 1643 whilst in pursuit of the Royalist Viscount Campden, who had taken refuge at Burghley. Family tradition has it that this portrait was given by Cromwell to Elizabeth, widow of David, 3rd Earl ...
The BM also had a portrait of Oliver Cromwell by Walker bequeathed in 1786 by Sir Robert Rich, Bt, to whose great-grandfather, Nathaniel Rich, then serving as a Colonel of Horse in the Parliamentary Army, it was presented by Cromwell himself. The latter portrait was transferred to the National Portrait Gallery in 1879 (NPG 536).
Many later portraits copied Walker’s patterns with varying degrees of accuracy; engravings (F. O’Donoghue & H. M. Hake, Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits in the ... British Museum, 27-65) include one by Vertue 1736 (D. Alexander, ‘George Vertue as an Engraver’, Wal. Soc., LXX, 2008, 750) showing a Cooper head (cf. NPG 3065 ), reversed, on a Walker body.
Thanks are also due to the director and trustees of the History of Parliament Trust for permission to use its draft biogra- phies in Chapters 2 and 8, the Cromwell Museum for permission to use the portrait of Oliver Cromwell attributed to Robert Walker, and Peter Furtado, editor ofHistory Today, for allowing the re-use (in Chapter 9) of ...
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There are several versions of this portrait by Robert Walker of Cromwell, and it is based on Van Dyck’s portrait of Sir Edmund Verney. An early version is at Burghley House, Stamford, beseiged by Cromwell in 1643; another is in the National Portrait Gallery.
