Portrait of Sir Benjamin Keene (1697-1757) mb-code RS-8634 A standard bearer

A standard bearer

'The contractor and the contracted

Church of St John the Evangelist

In the end

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Portrait of Sir Benjamin Keene (1697-1757) mb-code RS-8634 A standard bearerThree quarter length portrait of Keene in a brocaded coat and waistcoat bearing the ribbon and star of the Order of the Bath. The sitter wears a shoulder length grey wig and carries a tri corner hat his left hand, leaning this against a chair back. In his right hand is a paper bearing the inscription: 'Serenisimo et Potentis Principi D. Ferdinando Hispaniorum et India Regi Catholico &c.' An additional inscription appears above the sitter's head: 'Sir