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Sir Henry Unton (or Umpton) (c. 1557 – 23 March 1596) was an Elizabethan English diplomat . Life. Unton was born at Wychwood and was the second son of Sir Edward Unton (d. 1583) of Wadley House, near Faringdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire ).
This highly unusual narrative portrait of Sir Henry Unton (c. 1558-1596) was commissioned as a posthumous commemoration of his life by his widow, Dorothy née Wroughton (d. 1634). At the heart of the composition is the portrait of Unton, flanked by figures of Fame and Death.
Sir Henry Unton was a Member of Parliament, Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant in his home county of Berkshire, a representative of that ambitious, hard-working class upon which the post-Reformation Tudor monarchy depended for the day-by-day management of the country.
Sir Henry Unton. (circa 1558-1596), Soldier and diplomat. Sitter in 1 portrait. Unton was a distinguished diplomat and soldier, who served in the Earl of Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands along with Sir Philip Sidney. He was knighted at Zutphen in 1586.
Sir Henry Unton was the son of Sir Edward Unton (occasionally spelt Umpton) of Wadley House at Littleworth in Faringdon (Berkshire) and his wife, Anne, the eldest daughter of the former Lord Protector of the Realm, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and widow of John Dudley, the Earl of Warwick.
23 de mar. de 2023 · On this day in Tudor history, 23rd March 1596, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, soldier, member of Parliament and diplomat, Sir Henry Unton, or Umpton, died after being taken ill with “a violent, burning fever”.
21 de abr. de 2011 · One of the strangest and best-known pictures in the National Portrait Gallery is that of Sir Henry Unton. He is depicted seated in a richly upholstered chair while around him there are grouped many extraordinary and wondrous scenes.
