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William Faithorne: English: Sir John Fortescu Knight, Lord Cheife Justice & Lord Chancellor of England under King Henry the Sixth.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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William Faithorne  (1616–1691)  wikidata:Q3568608 s:en:Author:William Faithorne
 
William Faithorne
Alternative names
William, the elder Faithorne; William,The Elder Faithorne; William Faithorne the Elder; William Faithorne The Elder
Description British painter, printmaker and printseller
father of William Faithorne the Younger
Date of birth/death 1616 Edit this at Wikidata 13 May 1691 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Greater London Greater London
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London
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artist QS:P170,Q3568608
Title
English: Sir John Fortescu Knight, Lord Cheife Justice & Lord Chancellor of England under King Henry the Sixth.
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English: Portrait of Sir John Fortescue (c. 1394 – c. 1480), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and the author of De Laudibus Legum Angliæ (Concerning the Praises of the Laws of England, first published posthumously in 1543), an influential treatise on English law.
Date 1663
date QS:P571,+1663-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium line engraving
Dimensions paper size: height: 9.7 in (24.7 cm); width: 6.3 in (16.1 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,9.750U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,6.375U218593
institution QS:P195,Q238587
Accession number
NPG D22739
Object history 1931: Donated by Mary Elizabeth Stopford, daughter of compiler William Fleming M.D.
Inscriptions caption: "Sr John Forteſcu Kt Lord Cheife Justice & Lord Chancellor of England vnder King Henry ye Sixth."; under portrait, on the left: "W. Faithorne sculp."
References National Portrait Gallery: NPG D22739
Source/Photographer [1], from Edward Waterhouse (1663) Fortescutus Illustratus, or a Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, first Lord Chief Justice, after Lord Chancellour to King Henry the Sixth. Which Treatise, Dedicated to Prince Edward that King's Son and Heir (whom he Attended in his Retirement into France, and to whom he Loyally and Affectionately Imparted himself in the Virtue and Variety of his Excellent Discourse) Hee Purposely Wrote to Consolidate his Princely Minde in the Love and Approbation of the Good Lawes of England, and of the Laudable Customs of this Native Country. The Heroique Design of whose Excellent Judgement and Loyal Addiction to his Prince, is Humbly Endeavoured to be Revived, Admired, and Advanced, London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for Thomas Dicas [etc.], p. facing p. 1 OCLC: 830342279.
Other versions Portrait of Sir John Fortescue (1663) by William Faithorne - cropped.jpg
File:Edward Waterhouse, Fortescutus Illustratus, or a Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ (1663).pdf

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