Sir John Fortescu Knight, Lord Cheife Justice & Lord Chancellor of England under King Henry the Sixth., William Faithorne, 1663

Portrait of sir john fortescue (c. 1394 – c. 1480), lord chief justice of england and wales and the author of de laudibus legum angliæ (concerning the praises of the laws of england, first published posthumously in 1543), an influential treatise on english law. Date: 1663. Dimensions: paper size: height: 9.7 in (24.7 cm); width: 6.3 in (16.1 cm). Medium: line engraving. Collection: National Portrait Gallery. Portrait of Sir John Fortescue by William Faithorne, from Fortescutus Illustratus (1663) by Edward Waterhouse