CERL Thesaurus

Popham, John

Record IDcnp00841799

URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp00841799

Biographical Data1531 - 1607

Last Edit2024-02-08

General Note

Engl. Richter und Politiker

More Information

Further Biographical Data1531-1607. Geburtsjahr ca.

ActivityPersonen der Geschichte (Politiker und historische Persönlichkeiten) (16.5p) (sswd)

Personen zu Recht (7.14p) (sswd)

Politiker (gnd)

CountryUSA

Geographic NoteGB (iso3166)

US (iso3166)

Großbritannien

Names

HeadingPopham, John
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany

Sources

Found inLCAuth

Text from HLS website (https://today.law.harvard.edu/sir-john-popham-restored-former-glory/) The portrait of Sir John Popham, chief justice of the Kingâ€™s Bench during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, returned to the HLS Art Collection this spring (i.e. 1999) after extensive restoration, his scarlet robe redder than it has been in years. Popham, whose likeness now hangs in the Caspersen Room in Langdell Hall, presided over some of the most notable political cases of his day, including the treason trials of the Earl of Essex (1601) and Sir Walter Raleigh (1603). The oil-on-panel portrait (one of three paintings of Popham known to exist) was completed in 1602 by an unknown artist, and acquired in 1931 for HLS by Dean Roscoe Pound. When the painting was sent to the Straus Center for Conservation at the Fogg Art Museum, the paint was flaking, and the varnish was badly discolored. Previous cleanings had worn away layers of paint and scoured away detail, some of which cannot be retrieved. But painting conservator Teri Hensick removed layers of discolored varnish and overpaint and "knit back together the image" using watercolors and other "reversible" paints. The eighteenth-century Kent frame was given new life by conservator Susan Jackson, who replaced missing rosettes and applied new gold leaf.
[Unidentified painter / https://today.law.harvard.edu/sir-john-popham-restored-former-glory/ -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SirJohnPopham.jpg]