Art
Portrait Sir Peter Temple
Details
- Date
- 1622
- Author / Artist
- Cornelius Johnson
- Dimensions
- 68 x 51 cm
- Material
- Oil on Canvas
- Catalogue number
- HBT.30
- Current location
- North Hall
- Related
- Related history
Portrait Sir Peter Temple 2nd Bart. 1592-1653. Head and shoulders, wearing a blue doublet, with fine lace collar, inscribed and dated. In 1640, Temple was elected
Member of Parliament for Buckingham in the Short Parliament. He was, later that year, elected to the Long Parliament. He took the side of the Parliamentarians and fought for them in the Civil War, although his wife, Christian, was a Royalist sympathiser. He was nominated to serve as a judge on the court that tried Charles I, but never attended.
