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Henry Unton. Sir Henry Unton, 1586 (artist unknown) Sir Henry Unton (or Umpton) (c. 1557 – 23 March 1596) was an Elizabethan English diplomat . Life. Unton was born at Wychwood and was the second son of Sir Edward Unton (d. 1583) of Wadley House, near Faringdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire ).
This highly unusual narrative portrait of Sir Henry Unton (c. 1558-1596) was commissioned as a posthumous commemoration of his life by his widow, Dorothy née Wroughton (d. 1634). At the heart of the composition is the portrait of Unton, flanked by figures of Fame and Death.
Open. Commissioned by his widow, Dorothy, this remarkable painting tells the life story of Sir Henry Unton, an Elizabethan soldier and diplomat who died during a mission to France. The story begins at the bottom right, where after entering a house through the porch, the first scene portrays Sir Henry’s early infancy.
21 de abr. de 2011 · One of the strangest and best-known pictures in the National Portrait Gallery is that of Sir Henry Unton. He is depicted seated in a richly upholstered chair while around him there are grouped many extraordinary and wondrous scenes.
Born: circa 1561 at Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire. Ambassador to France. Died: 23rd March 159 6 at La Fere, Picardy, France. Sir Henry Unton was the son of Sir Edward Unton (occasionally spelt Umpton) of Wadley House at Littleworth in Faringdon (Berkshire) and his wife, Anne, the eldest daughter of the former Lord Protector of the Realm, ...
UNTON, Henry (c.1558-96), of Wadley, Berks. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981. Available from Boydell and Brewer. Constituency. Dates. NEW WOODSTOCK. 1584. BERKSHIRE. 1593. Family and Education.
Sir Henry Unton. (circa 1558-1596), Soldier and diplomat. Sitter in 1 portrait. Unton was a distinguished diplomat and soldier, who served in the Earl of Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands along with Sir Philip Sidney. He was knighted at Zutphen in 1586. He twice led negotiations with Henry IV of France (1591-2 and 1595-6).
