This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...Cambridge, one representing him' in youth, and the other at middle age;188 the third, by W. W. Wissing, representing him as a young man, is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.189 There is universal agreement among his contemporaries that Cutts was a brave and even rash soldier.190 That he was a wise and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...Cambridge, one representing him' in youth, and the other at middle age;188 the third, by W. W. Wissing, representing him as a young man, is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.189 There is universal agreement among his contemporaries that Cutts was a brave and even rash soldier.190 That he was a wise and farsighted leader is not so certain. In commenting upon the capture of Venlo, Captain Parker criticised very severely the actions of Lord Cutts from the point of military tactics.191 An anonymous critic referred to him "as brave and brainless as the sword he wears."192!SA copy of the will may be found in the library of the University of Pennsylvania. " Trans. Essex Arch. Soc, ibid. TM Calendar of Treasury Papers, 1708-14, 576-7. The committee reported that they believed that Lord Cutts had spent over seven hundred pounds in repairs., s" Browne, G. F., History of St. Catharine College, 164. Owing to the war the portraits have been stored away and I have been unable to get photographs of them or information about them. 1M It is Number 515, and measures by 24 inches. Cust, Lionel, National Portrait Gallery, I, 203. The portrait must have been done before 1687, for Wissing died in that year. He often repeated the Duke of Monmouth's portrait, and was sent into Holland to paint William's and Mary's. There was ample opportunity therefore for Cutts to sit for Wissing. There is likely a fourth likeness, for in Macaulay, History of England, 1913-14, V, 2533; and VI, 2633, are reproduced the Wissing portrait, and a reproduction from a mezzotint from life by P. Schenck, an Amsterdam engraver. The present location of the mezzotint is not given by the editor. As the inscription referred to below proves, the likeness was made after the accession of...
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