Sir Charles Blount Baron Mountjoy, Knight of the Garter, Lord Deputy of Ireland: P.254-1954

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Titles

Sir Charles Blount Baron Mountjoy, Knight of the Garter, Lord Deputy of Ireland
Portrait of Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy and Earl of Devonshire, 1563-1606

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Green, Valentine
Publisher: Boydell, John
Painter: Somer, Paulus I van (After)

Entities

Legal notes

Given by F.C. Daniell, October 1954

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1954) by Daniell, Frederick Charles

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1775

Note

Inscriptions on bottom "Vansomer Pinxit." and "Val. Green, Engraver to his Majesty fecit." and "From the Original by Vansomer in the Possesion of the Earl of Dartmouth." and "Published Octr. 2d. 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London." and "Sir Charles Blount Baron Mountjoy, Knight of the Garter, Lord Deputy of Ireland, one of the Favourites of Queen Elizabeth, and by King James created Earl of Devonshire. He was one of the commanders against the Spanish Armada, gained the Battle of Kingsale in 1602, and drove the Spaniards out of Ireland. See a very particular account of his person and Character in Morrison's Travels."