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After Daniel Mytens (1590-1647) Dutch. A Portrait believed to be of Sir Jeffrey Hudson, Oil on canvas, 49.25" x 32.25" (125.1 x 82cm). Notes: this portrait is after the painting in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. Sir Jeffrey Hudson was an English court dwarf at the Court of Queen Henrietta Maria. Knighted by the Queen he fought with the Royalists in the English Civil War and fled with her to France but was expelled from her court when he shot and killed William Crofts in a duel. His life was spared but on fleeing he was captured by pirates and sent to North Africa as a slave. Released more than twenty five years later he returned to England but was there incarcerated for, as the records state, being 'Roman Catholick'
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