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Lot 2
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Gerard Soest 1600-1681

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Description

  • Gerard Soest
  • Portrait of a gentleman, said to be James Usher (1580-1655)
  • signed; inscribed with sitter and artist on an old label attached to the stretcher 
  • oil on canvas
  • 39x30cm., 15¼x11¾in.
head and shoulders, wearing clerical robes

Catalogue Note

James Usher was the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland.  He married Phoebe Chaloner circa 1612.  He was buried in Westminster Abbey, by order of Oliver Cromwell.