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| Keywords: people Tate Gallery: Souch was a provincial artist who was apprenticed to the heraldic painter Randle Holme of Chester in 1607. His career can be charted from a small group of signed portraits of people from the region around Chester.The sitter was a member of the Puleston or Pilsdon family of Emral on the Welsh border. Above his slashed doublet he wears a black gorget, or piece of throat armour, which indicates that he is an officer. Over this lies a lace collar called a 'falling band' and Puleston grasps its tie-strings in his left hand. Tate Gallery: Souch was a provincial artist who was apprenticed to the heraldic painter Randle Holme of Chester in 1607. His career can be charted from a small group of signed portraits of people from the region around Chester.The sitter was a member of the Puleston or Pilsdon family of Emral on the Welsh border. Above his slashed doublet he wears a black gorget, or piece of throat armour, which indicates that he is an officer. Over this lies a lace collar called a 'falling band' and Puleston grasps its tie-strings in his left hand. | ||||
