Edmund Bedingfeld (1615-1680), Canon of Lierre

Flemish School. Oil painting on canvas, Edmund Bedingfeld, Canon of Lierre in Brabant (1615-1680), Flemish School, mid-17th century. Half-length portrait of a man in black with white collar and cuffs, a breviary in his right hand with his fingers inserted between the leaves, his left hand rests on a ledge at the front; at the left, a crucifix and reliquary. Dark background. Inscribed, lower right: Edmund 4th son of Sir Henry Bedingfeld and brother to Sir Hen.. and Col Shunias Bidi. He was a canon at Liere in Brobant a Royal Foundation subject only to the immediate nominal of the nuns of Lain! He died there in the ... opinion of ...'. White catalogue number 72 lower right. Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk (Accredited Museum)