2-704-511 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sr. Henry Vane', 1757. Portrait of English statesman Sir Henry Vane the Younger (1613-1662). A Puritan, Vane travelled to the New World in 1635 and became Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England the following year. He returned to England in 1637 and went on to became an important figure on the Parliamentarian side during the English Civil War. After the Restoration he was imprisoned and was executed for high treason.