Lot 219: CORNELIUS JOHNSON

CORNELIUS JOHNSON LONDON 1593 - 1661 UTRECHT PORTRAIT OF EDWARD HEATH (1612-1669) signed and dated lower right: C.J. fecit / 1629 , and inscribed upper left: Son of Ld: Chf: Justice Heath oil on panel 75 by 61 cm.; 29 1/2 by 24 in.

A. J. Finberg, "A Chronological List of Portraits by Cornelius Johnson", Walpole Society, Vol. X, Oxford 1922, p. 19

See lot 216

The son of Sir Robert Heath (see previous lots), the sitter was educated at Cambridge, and studied law at the Inner Temple. In July 1626 his father advised Edward and his brother, both students at Cambridge at the time, 'remember that yee are the sonns of a father as is soe well known in the world that your faults will be more observed than of others' (Heath papers).