(more…)“I need not tell you that since we left, all my thoughts have been with you at Windsor, and that your image fills my whole soul. Even in my dreams I never imagined that I should find so much love on earth.”
Prince Consort Albert to his new wife, 21 year old Queen Victoria, in 1840.
Category: The quest to find the Portrait of Lord Keeper Richard Lane
There is clear evidence that a portrait of Sir Richard Lane exists… What did he look like?
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Unlikely Treasure: an 1866 Gift of Remembrance for the Grieving Queen Victoria
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Westminster Palace: Analysis of the 1844 Trial of Strafford Painting (Conclusion)
Welcome to the final (and best) chapter of the “Trial of Strafford” analysis! We have reached the core of this historic drama–the Parliament’s 1641 prosecution team versus Lord Strafford’s muzzled and thinly tolerated counsel for the defense. We have come to the reason I became involved in the story of this painting in the first place: the possibility that Thomas Woolnoth (the artist who created this historic 1844 painting): 1) knew about Richard Lane’s role in the trial, 2) had access to Richard Lane’s (now lost) 1645 portrait, and 3) deliberately included him in the cast of historical portraitures depicted within this dramatic painting.
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