Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (c.1575 – 1633)

British (English) School. Oil painting on canvas, Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (c.1575 – 1633), British (English) School, circa 1625. A full-length portrait of Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland, to right standing on a on a black and white marble floor, wearing embroidered doublet, red breeches with embroidered strips, lace ruff and pink sash, [note that the colours of his clothes are also those of the standard], his proper gloved left hand by his sword, his right on his hip, his pike - whose steel top contains the figure of an armed man - leaning against the wall, left; through an arched opening, right, a battle scene with pikemen, standard bearer (white flag with pink horizontal stripes [barry argent and gules, a canton of the first - the canton would actually appear to contain the cross of St George - (Hawkesbury)] and infantry firing at the enemy, whose standard appears to have a single diagonal pink stripe on a white field. The landscape appears to show a town by, and a fort over, an estuary; hanged men on gibbets are by the shore. Son of a Hertfordshire knight, said to have studied at Oxford, he was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to James I and Controller of the Household, 1617-1621. He was created Viscount Falkland in the Scottish peerage in 1620. He married to the heiress Elizabeth Tanfield in 1600, but separated from her when she apostasised. Their eleven children included Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, subject of the companion portrait to the original of Charles Cavendish. Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire (Accredited Museum)