PURITAN SWORD CUTS

Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 9

PURITAN SWORD CUTS

A PORTRAIT WITH A HISTORY History oi'lon peeps onl. from t,h« franul of mi old nicunv. and a Inlldenglli portrait of Charles 1., as n young man. by 'Daniel My lens i le; elder (who preceded V andyck as* lae Com I painter). which appeared at. Christie's recently and fetched üß()g=, is said lo have been subjeel ,d to .-o.veral swordl mis hv (.'ivimvell's soldier,. when it used 10 Icing iu Whileindl. writes if, Carter, in (li.- 'Daily Telegraph.' Itefoie dial, tin' lecture i- believed In h;e, e belonged lo the King’s favourite, 11 t-orgo Villirrs. Duke of Fur•kinghain, when ho liied in gr at slate Vork House, in the Strand. It was Villiors who ♦ncmirni;orl Charles lo be a enlleolor and patron of ail, and at his dealh by assassination in 3623 he own-'I probably ilie proa lest. pnv:ilc rolleelinn in England. He had lionghl, for rrample, Ihe famous collect ion lonmd by TJuhens. nnd among Ids pictures was Titian's e debiated ' here Homo.' now ni Vienna, for which be had refused £9.01X1 — a Mini which to-day represents ten times as imieh. 'rids Charles 1. portrait 'which shows a, view of li*o'i College iu tho backsrinndl was oifeieu in (he Collection of tin! Into Sir Charles Seeley, who used (o live at I’uro-uown (now a well-kno-.vn golf fiulo, and was nicinb"' of I’arliaineuf for f.incdn. Sir Chart's ps.-d in buy his picture'- and drawbars from old William Vokin?, a ’.cry noted dealer in his day, and was especially fond of the water colours hv Thomas Miles Pichard-ot;, jun.. P.W.S |lß]>9(H. Although Vokiiis n-cd to pav Kieharnsoa, who was his friend and neighbour in Forohesler terrace, as niueh as -Cl vO or £2OO for a. large drawing', the highed price for one, at; CbvisiicV. until recentlv. was 370, g*. given for the ■ Naples’ in 19H