The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . g over a portrait of the age of Henry II, it must havebeen an effigy in brass from a church, or a bronze recliningfigure, or perhaps it was in a more humble form—the sealof a knight in armour on a prancing charger. Portraitsin oil did not come into notice in England before the daysof Henry the Eighth. In the Introduction, page 10, reference is made to theMoseley face as a type which survived from an earlier er
The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . g over a portrait of the age of Henry II, it must havebeen an effigy in brass from a church, or a bronze recliningfigure, or perhaps it was in a more humble form—the sealof a knight in armour on a prancing charger. Portraitsin oil did not come into notice in England before the daysof Henry the Eighth. In the Introduction, page 10, reference is made to theMoseley face as a type which survived from an earlier study of the four Moseley portraits, in connection withportraits by Holbein, may throw light on the theory thereadvanced. 183 It is said that a portrait exists of a member of the familyIn each generation since the Immigrants day. Only oneother similar case Is known. The portrait here reproducedIs from a photograph by Mr. Cook from the original,owned by the late Burwell Basset Moseley, Esq., ofNorfolk. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 5, page Institute Historical Collections, Volume 49, page 177—the genealogy byG. Andrews Moriarty, Jr., Esq. 184. WILLIAM MOSELEY Died 1655 (185) -: NEW YORKrl];^LlC LIBRARTl Captain William Moseley, Jr., of Rolleston Hall,in that part of Lower Norfolk County known after 1691as Princess Ann County, was the son of William Moseley,a merchant in Rotterdam, where the son was perhaps born,and where his portrait doubtless was painted. He cameover as a young man to Virginia, with his parents, and laterbecame a justice or commissioner for his county. His wife,Mary, whom he married about 1660, was the daughterof Captain John Gookin, of Nansemond, and the niece ofMajor General Daniel Gookin, of New England. Theirdescendants occupied Rolleston Hall for several genera-tions. Mrs. Mary Moseleys mother, Sarah Offley, while livingwith her third husband. Colonel Yardley, obtained theMoseley family jewels in exchange for cattle,
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