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22 de mar. de 2022 · One of the strangest and best-known pictures in the National Portrait Gallery is that of Sir Henry Unton. He is depicted seated in a richly upholstered chair while around him there are grouped many extraordinary and wondrous scenes.
Sir Henry Unton (?1557-1596), soldier and diplomat of Wadley in Berkshire, was knighted for his courage at the Battle of Zutphen in 1586. In 1591 he was to be sent as an ambassador to France, where he died five years later.The artist's name is not recorded, although the composition and handling recall that of portraits signed by Hieronimo Custodis.
This memorial painting depicts scenes from the life of Sir Henry Unton, Ambassador to France for Queen Elizabeth I and amateur musician. On the right of the painting are two musical scenes: Unton is playing viola da gamba in a consort of viols, and further right Unton plays lute for a masque in a mixed consort with flute, cittern, violin, viol and a small plucked instrument hidden by the ...
He bought two more manors in Berkshire and, in 1589, succeeded Edward to what remained in his hands of the Unton inheritance. But by now two of Henry’s patrons, Leicester and Walsingham, were dead and Unton’s expectations were centred upon first Hatton aim then Leicester’s stepson, the Earl of Essex. In the meantime he had sat in ...
Sir Henry Unton (d. 1596) Born: circa 1561 at Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire Ambassador to France Died: 23rd March 1596 at La Fere, Picardy, France. Sir Henry Unton was the son of Sir Edward Unton (occasionally spelt Umpton) of Wadley House at Littleworth in Faringdon (Berkshire) and his wife, Anne, the eldest daughter of the former Lord Protector of the Realm, Edward Seymour, Duke of ...
Portrait of Sir Henry Unton 1586, British School 16th Century. Rica Jones and Joyce H. Townsend
This idiosyncratic portrait was probably commissioned by his widow Dorothy after Sir Henry Unton’s death in 1596 as an elaborate memorial to his achievements. Gibson, Robin, The Face in the Corner: Animal Portraits from the Collections of the National Portrait Gallery , 1998, p. 24
