Lord Charles Cavendish (1620 - 1643)

British (English) School. Oil painting on canvas, Lord Charles Cavendish (1620 - 1643), British (English) School, inscribed top right: Lieut. Genl. Charles Cavendish, Son to/Christian Countess of Devonshire./Killed in the Civil Wars at Gainsborough, 17th century. A three-quarter length portrait of a young man, turned slightly to the left, brown shoulder-length curly hair, wearing a buff coloured doublet, breast-plate, red sash and white lawn collar; a baton in his right hand, his left hand resting on the hilt of his sword, his helmet on a plinth on the left. He was the second son of the 2nd Earl of Devonshire and Christian Bruce his wife, Lieutenant General of Horse under his cousin William Marquis and afterwards Duke of Newcastle. He was killed at Gainsborougfh 31 July 1643, buried at Newark and moved to the Cavendish vault in All Saints Church, Derby on the day of his mother's burial there. February 18th 1674. Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire (Accredited Museum)