Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby. Mezzotint by V. Green after Josiah Boydell after A. van Dyck.

Outlawed for murder of Henry Long in a family feud in Wiltshire, 1594. Served in army in France under Henri IV. Pardoned by Queen Elizabeth, 1598, army officer in Ireland; Governor of Guernsey 1621-1644. Held various offices of state under Charles I. Established what became Oxford Botanic Gardens from 1621 onwards

Portrait shows a wound outside the left eye covered by a patch: Danby received many wounds in the course of his military career, including a shot in the face in 1599 in battle near Mallow, County Cork

London (in Cheapside) : Published ... by John Boydell, engraver, Nov.r 1st 1775.

1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 52.8 x 35.5 cm

Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby. In the Marble Parlour at Houghton. Van Dyke pinxit. Josiah Boydell delint. ; Val. Green fecit Engra.r to his Majesty. Size of the picture F4.I3 by F7.I3 in height

Whitman's state IV or V.

J. Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, vol. 2, London 1883, Green no. 34, pp. 547-534

Alfred Whitman, British mezzotinters: Valentine Green, London 1902, no. 48, pp. 55-56

Wellcome Collection 12162i