2-711-076 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland', c1590, (1906). Portrait of English naval commander George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland (1558-1605). Clifford was a courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, a gambler, privateer and founding member of the East India Company. After a painting made c1590 by Nicholas Hilliard, in the National Maritime Museum, London. From "The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs", Volume VIII, October 1905 - March 1906. [The Burlington Magazine Ltd, London, 1906]