Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.2372

    Portrait of Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey

    Date
    1742
    Sitter
    Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey (1582 - 1642, British) , Soldier
    Creator
    Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780, Dutch) , Engraver
    After
    Cornelius Johnson (1593 - 1661, Dutch) , Painter
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    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey within an oval frame. He is shown in a metal breastplate with a sash and collar over the top. The frame is flanked by pointed flagpoles with plain banners. A helmet can be seen on a stone plinth to the right of the portrait and a sword lies at the bottom of the print by a drum and tree branch.

    Inscribed above portrait: ‘ROBERT EARL OF LINDSEY’ Inscribed below: ‘C. Johnson pinx.’ ‘In the possession of Charles Bertie Esqr’ ‘Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini 1742.’ ‘J. Houbraken sculps. Amst. 1742.’

    Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey (1582-1642), British soldier and courtier, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. His grandson, Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey (1630-1701), British nobleman, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1666.
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