Gilbert Burnet 1645-1715 from portrait by John Riley in National Portrait Gallery. Macaulay’s History of England with Illustrations. Vol III From the Accession of James II (1915) by Lord Macaulay (1859) edited by Charles Harding Firth (1936) © Ivy Close Images Gilbert Burnet (1643 – 1715) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was highly respected as a cleric, a preacher, an academic, a writer and a historian. John Riley (1646-1691), or Ryley, was an English portrait painter. He painted portraits
Gilbert Burnet 1645-1715 from portrait by John Riley in National Portrait Gallery. Macaulay’s History of England with Illustrations. Vol III From the Accession of James II (1915) by Lord Macaulay (1859) edited by Charles Harding Firth (1936) © Ivy Close Images Gilbert Burnet (1643 – 1715) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was highly respected as a cleric, a preacher, an academic, a writer and a historian. John Riley (1646-1691), or Ryley, was an English portrait painter. He painted portraits of Charles II and James II, and was court painter to William III and Mary II. One of his pupils was Jonathan Richardson.
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