Title

Portrait of John Hampden, English politician and MP, mid 17th century

Caption

Portrait of John Hampden, English politician and MP, mid 17th century. Hampden (1594-1643) was an English Parliamentary leader who opposed King Charles I over ship money, an episode in the controversies that ultimately led to the English Civil Wars. He was fatally wounded fighting on the Parliamentarian side in a skirmish at Chalgrove Field in Oxfordshire on 18 June 1643. Painting in Kenwood House, London, from the Suffolk Collection, London.

Date

1630

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B40_018

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,2Mb) / 12,8in x 15,2in / 3826 x 4568 (300dpi)

Keywords

England people male man men arts painting politics country art guy British English color colour war location century Britain casualty soldiers soldier concept battle politician 17th century civil war MP statesman seventeenth century English Heritage English Civil War member of parliament parliamentarian John Hampden Battle of Chalgrove Field portrait oil John Hampden William Dobson Dobson William English Civil Wars First English Civil War oil portrait