ENGLISH SCHOOL 1638

A Portrait of Thomas Snelling of Chaddlewood

Oil on canvas: 43 3/4 x 34 in. 111 x 86.5 cm. Inscribed Anno 1638 Aets 80 and charged with the sitter’s coat of arms

A Portrait of Thomas Snelling of Chaddlewood, near Plymouth, three-quarter length, standing, wearing a brown sit and cap, his sparrow-hawk beside him, holding a prayer book in is hand, a pair of spectacles in his right hand, a horseman in a landscape, probably Dartmoor, beyond.