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Summary

Artist
Attributed to Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen  (1593–1661)  wikidata:Q636113
 
Attributed to Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen
Alternative names
Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen, Cornelis Janson van Ceulen, Cornelius Johnson,
Cornelis Johnson van Ceulen, Cornelis Jansz. van Ceulen, Cornelius Jonson van Ceulen,
Cornelius Jonson
Description English-Dutch painter and miniaturist
Date of birth/death 14 October 1593 (baptised) 5 August 1661 (buried)
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata Utrecht Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
England (1618-1643), Middelburg (1643), Amsterdam (circa 1646
date QS:P,+1646-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
-circa 1652
date QS:P,+1652-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
), Utrecht (circa 1652-1661)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q636113,P5102,Q230768
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Portrait of Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet (d.1631) of Connington. Collection of Society of Antiquaries, London. Arms of Cotton (Ancient): Argent, a bend sable between three pellets. The arrangement as seen on monuments in Exeter Cathedral to Bishop William Cotton (d.1621), Bishop of Exeter and on monument to his grandson Edward Cotton (d.1675), Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral, may be th result of 20th c. restoration.(See images[1]). William Cotton (fl.1378,1400) lord of the manor of Cotton in Cheshire, married Agnes de Ridware, daughter and heiress of Walter de Ridware, lord of the manor of Hamstall Ridware in Staffordshire.(Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.240-1) The junior branch of the Cotton family descended from Agnes de Ridware adopted the armorials of Ridware (Azure, an eagle displayed argent) [1] in lieu of their paternal arms of Cotton, which junior branch included Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington (1570-1631), founder of the Cottonian Library. The senior branch, of which Bishop Cotton was a member, retained the ancient arms of Cotton (Argent, a bend sable between three pellets). Arms: Cotton impaling Wessenham/Weasenham (of Norfolk?) (Sable, a fess dancette between three mullets pierced argent) of 4 quarters. Arms of Weasenham recorded by Weever in East Winch Church, Norfolk (The antiquities of King's Lynn By William Taylor (antiquary.), p.43[2]).
Date circa 1626
date QS:P571,+1626-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium painting
Object history 1626: commissioned by
Inscriptions

Willielmus Cotton tempore H VI duxit in uxorem Mariam filliam (sic) Roberti Wessenham ex Scotorum regibus oriundi ("William Cotton in the time of (King) Henry VI married Mary a daughter of Robert Wessenham, descended from the Kings of the Scots") (This was the 1st Baronet's great-great-great grandfather William Cotton (d.1455) killed at the Battle of St Albans)[2] There follows a pedigree chart of the 1st Baronet's four paternal antecedents and their wives. etc...

Right: QUI (fuit) Antiquitatum restitutor; Humilitatis Exemplor; Scientiae Thesaurus; Familiae Suae Gloria ("Who was of Antiquity the restorer; of Humility an exemplar; of Science a treasury; of his family the glory")
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Der Urheber des Bildes ist schon mehr als 70 Jahre tot. - The author of the picture is already dead more than 70 years. - L'auteur de l'image est mort plus de 70 ans.

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  1. (Per John Guillim (d.1621), Display of Heraldry: "The Field is Azure, an Eagle display'd Argent; by the Name of Cotton of Huntingdon and Cambridgeshire. Crest, out of a Crown proper, a Demy Eagle display'd Argent, armed and membred Gules. These were anciently the Armes of the Family of Ridware; but William Cotton (about the latter End of Edw.3.) having married Agnes, Daughter and Heir of Walter de Ridware of Hampstall-Ridware in the County of Stafford, his Son John Cotton, left his Paternal Coat, (Argent, a Bend Sable between three Pellets) and bare that of Ridware. Of this Family was Sir Robert Cotton of Connington in the County of Huntingdon, created Baronet May 22. 1611. who is deservedly famous amongst the Learned Part of Mankind, for the valuable Library of Books, which he industriously collected, as well as for his own Personal Qualifications."[3])
  2. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.240, 242, pedigree of Cotton

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