Called Benjamin Hyde

British (English) School. Oil painting on canvas, Called Benjamin Hyde, British (English) School, circa 1640. A three-quarter-length portrait of a mature man, turned slightly to the left, gazing at the spectator, his right hand on a globe, his left on his sword, also a dagger or sword on his right hip at the back, wearing black jerkin and breeches and stiff white lace collar, a gold chain with a pendant medallion of a man in a ruff. He also wears an elaborately embroidered sword sash and belt. Short grey hair, moustache and spade beard. Brown drapes behind to the right. Benjamin Hyde was an ancestor of Harriet White (1849-1880), mother of the 9th Earl of Stamford. He was a staunch supporter of Charles I. Dunham Massey, Cheshire (Accredited Museum)