Exquisite 1840s Antique Portrait Print

Engraved by: H. ROBINSON

FROM THE ORIGINAL OF KNELLER, IN THE COLLECTION OF

THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF HARDWICKE

Published by THE LONDON PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY

Approximate Portrait Image Area Size: 4 X 4 3/4inches

Approximate Size With Decorated Border and vignettes: 6 X 7 1/2 inches

Approximate Overall Size with margins: 7 X 10 1/2 inches

Exquisite 1840s Steel Engraving - Lovely Antique Portrait Print

A beautiful elaborate fleur de lis scrollwork decorative border surrounds the image, with a tiny vignette at the top of the portrait image. The vignette may represent the family coat of arms or crest. The celtic like ornamental perimeter scrollwork surrounding the portrait is a beautiful work of art, typical of a John Tallis type production. A great historical portrait print for a genealogy buff looking for family heritage or royalty type prints.

CONDITION: Mild spots on outside marginal area otherwise in Very Good Condition. Blank on Reverse side and printed heavier paper. A beautiful print, lovely work of art.

United Kingdom History Biographies Wikipedia: Gilbert Burnet (September 18, 1643 - March 17, 1715) was a Scottish theologian and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch and French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Gilbert was respected as a cleric, a preacher, and an academic, as well as a writer and historian. He was born at Edinburgh, Scotland in 1643, the son of a Royalist and Episcopalian lawyer, who became a judge, and of the sister of Johnston of Warristoun, a leader of the Covenanters. His father was his first tutor until he began his studies at the University of Aberdeen, where he earned a Master of Arts in Philosophy at the age of thirteen. He studied law briefly before changing to theology, and earned his Doctor of Divinity by the age of eighteen. He did not enter into the ministry at that time, but traveled for several years. He visited Oxford, Cambridge, London, the United Provinces and France. He studied Hebrew under a Rabbi in Amsterdam. By 1665 he returned to Scotland and was ordained by the Bishop of Edinburgh. He began his ministry in the rural church at Saltoun, East Lothian, and served this community devoutly for four years. In 1669, without his asking or even consent, he was named to the vacant chair of Divinity at the University of Glasgow. At first he declined, since his congregation unanimously asked him to remain. But, when Bishop of Edinburgh Leighton urged him, he accepted the post. With the unsettled political times, he left the University in 1674 and moved to London. In London, his political and religious sentiments prompted him to support the Whigs. His energetic and bustling character led him to take an active part in the controversies of the time, and he endeavoured to bring about a reconciliation between Episcopacy and Presbytery. Going to London he was in some favour with Charles II, from whom he received various preferments.