2-756-526 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Prince Rupert, c1665, (1944). Portrait of Prince Rupert, 1st Duke of Cumberland and Count Palatine of the Rhine (1619-1682), wearing the robes of a Knight of the Garter. Rupert was a cavalry commander during the English Civil War (1642-1649), and became commander-in-chief of the Royalist land forces in 1644. After a painting by Peter Lely in the National Maritime Museum, London. From "Battlefields in Britain', by C. V. Wedgwood. [Collins, London, 1944]