Keywords: people Portrait of Thomas, 1st Viscount Fanshawe (1596-1665). School of Lely, c.1660-65. Portrait of Thomas, 1st Viscount Fanshawe (1596-1665). He fought at Edgehill and lost a large sum of money given to the Royalist cause and by sequestration, for which he was created Viscount in 1661. His sister-in-law wrote of him: 'He was a very worthy, valient (sic), honest, good-natured gentleman, charitable and generous, and had excellent natural parts, yet choleric and rash, which was only incommode to his own domestic family. He was a very pretty man (for he was but low), of a sanguine complexion, much of a gentleman in his mien and language'. Portrait of Thomas, 1st Viscount Fanshawe (1596-1665). School of Lely, c.1660-65. Portrait of Thomas, 1st Viscount Fanshawe (1596-1665). He fought at Edgehill and lost a large sum of money given to the Royalist cause and by sequestration, for which he was created Viscount in 1661. His sister-in-law wrote of him: 'He was a very worthy, valient (sic), honest, good-natured gentleman, charitable and generous, and had excellent natural parts, yet choleric and rash, which was only incommode to his own domestic family. He was a very pretty man (for he was but low), of a sanguine complexion, much of a gentleman in his mien and language'. |