Strickland, Walter (c.1600-71)
Strickland, Walter (c.1600-71)
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About this picture
by Pieter Nason, oil on canvas, 1651. National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 5235
About the subject
Strickland, a close ally of Oliver Cromwell, established his diplomatic reputation as the permanent envoy of Parliament to the Dutch government in the Hague – where his assistant, Isaac Dorislaus, was assassinated by royalists in 1649. After the Restoration he retired to Yorkshire and wrote a History of Persecution in defence of Protestant sects.
