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Lot Essay
A handwritten note on the reverse of the miniature reads '[.....] Wm. Battell M. A. of Comber Grove in the Co. of Somerset marry'd Dorothy daughter of Sir Rob. Hesilrige by which Connection he obtain'd this Portrait of Sir Arthur Hesilrige who in the civil Wars raised a Regiment of Horse called 'The Lobsters' on the side of the Parliament against Charles the 1st; he died in 1660, it was painted by the you[..] [..]er Hoskins of whom the there i[.] [..] n Account in Lord Orford's history of Painters, y given to Lt Col. Davies MP, by Rev. W. Battell 30 May 183[.]'
Sir Arthur Hesilrige, English parliamentarian and one of the five Members of Parliament whose attempted seizure by Charles in 1642 precipitated the Civil War. He sat in the Long and Short Parliaments for his county, Leicestershire and became governor of Newcastle. He commanded a cavalry regiment known as the 'lobsters' on account of their full armour. At the Restoration his life was saved because he had refused to sign Charles I's death warrant but he was committed to the Tower of London, where he died.
Sir Arthur Hesilrige, English parliamentarian and one of the five Members of Parliament whose attempted seizure by Charles in 1642 precipitated the Civil War. He sat in the Long and Short Parliaments for his county, Leicestershire and became governor of Newcastle. He commanded a cavalry regiment known as the 'lobsters' on account of their full armour. At the Restoration his life was saved because he had refused to sign Charles I's death warrant but he was committed to the Tower of London, where he died.