A History of Britain, Volume 2 (76 page)

BOOK: A History of Britain, Volume 2

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Sir William Waller
, by Cornelius Jonson, 1643. Popularly known as âWilliam the Conqueror' for his early successes in the civil war, Waller was later defeated by his friend Sir Ralph Hopton at Lansdown in 1643.

Thomas Wentworth
[later the Earl of Strafford]
and his Secretary, Sir Philip Mainwaring
, by Anthony van Dyck,
c
. 1634.

John Pym
, by Samuel Cooper,
c
. 1630.

Sir Edmund Verney
(detail), by Anthony Van Dyck,
c
. 1640.

Brampton Bryan, home of the Harleys, was besieged by royalists in 1643 and burnt to the ground in 1644.

Charles I at his Trial
, by Edward Bower, 1649. Charles, clad in gold and black, wears the âuniform of melancholy'.

An Eyewitness Representation of the Execution of King Charles I
, by Dirk Weesop,
c
. 1649. An imaginary reconstruction of the execution, highlighting the mixed reactions of the crowd.

Oliver Cromwell,
by Robert Walker,
c
. 1649.

Frontispiece to
Leviathan
(1651) by Thomas Hobbes.

John Lilburne, c
. 1640, one of the foremost Levellers, who fought for freedom and reform, loudly championing the rights of the individual.

Henry Ireton,
attributed to Robert Walker,
c.
1655.

Charles II when Prince of Wales
(detail), studio of Adriaen Hanneman,
c.
1648â9. A rare portrait of the young prince during his exile in the Low Countries.