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Robert Rich (1587–1658), Second Earl of Warwick  1635

by Anthony van Dyck

(Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art) [br] [i]A Puritan sailor of fortune, the first earl of Warwick set up companies in Virginia and the Caribbean, helped colonize Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and seized Spanish ships on behalf of the Duke of Savoy and Charles I. The latter’s policies made Warwick side with Parliament as commander of the navy (from 1642). ...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art