Oliver Cromwell,"The Headless Horseman", an equestrian portrait finely embroidered in coloured silks on silk satin, the harness of braid, the armour partly outlined in braid, the saddle, the stirrup rosette and a helmet bosse embroidered with seed pearls, the horse and clouds drawn in grey wash--17 x 21¾in. (43 x 54cm.), English, circa 1658, in slightly later frame with gold leafed tortoiseshell veneer

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Oliver Cromwell,"The Headless Horseman", an equestrian portrait finely embroidered in coloured silks on silk satin, the harness of braid, the armour partly outlined in braid, the saddle, the stirrup rosette and a helmet bosse embroidered with seed pearls, the horse and clouds drawn in grey wash--17 x 21¾in. (43 x 54cm.), English, circa 1658, in slightly later frame with gold leafed tortoiseshell veneer
See Colour Plate

來源

There is a note attached to the back: Chas. William Cromwell Russell This picture formerly belonged to Miss Cromwell of Ponder's End
Eliz. O[liveria] Russell 1834
On another sheet:"E[mma] Gardiner" and in another later hand Miss Cromwell [Aunt Sukey] of Ponder's End Cheshunt lived with her mother who lived to be 104 yrs.

拍品專文

This is copied from the celebrated engraving of Cromwell by Pierre Lombart (1613-1682), usually called the headless horseman. It acquired this name from a number of impressions that survive with no head, as the plate was altered in about 1658 to be a portrait of King Louis XIV of France. It was subsequently changed back to Cromwell, then to Charles I and Cromwell again. The print, of course, is cribbed from Van Dyck's famous portrait of King Charles I.
See C.S. Layard, The Headless Horseman, 1928 and Anthony Griffiths in The Print in Stuart Britain, 1998, p.181.