John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and 1st Earl of Waterford
Not on view
Valiant service as a general during the reign of King Henry VI earned John Talbot the nicknames “Terror of the French” and the “English Achilles.” This print is based on a painting at Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, a work that Horace Walpole, the eighteenth-century aesthete and collector, declared to be one of the oldest in England. As a second son, the sitter was born plain John Talbot. He gradually gained titles -- referenced here through the heraldry on his mantle -- through two marriages, and by inheriting them from a cousin, and infant niece.
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