2-706-076 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Robert Lilburne, 1650, (1947). Portrait of English soldier Colonel Robert Lilburne (1613-1665) who joined the Parliamentary army at the beginning of the Civil War. Lilburne was a judge at the trial of King Charles I, and was one of those who signed Charles' death warrant. Lilburne surrendered himself in 1660 when Charles II was restored to the throne, was tried and sentenced to death, but instead was incarcerated and died in prison. After a miniature painted in 1650 by Samuel Cooper, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. From "The Saturday Book", Seventh Year, edited by Leonard Russell. [Hutchinson, St. Albans, 1947]