Museum Quality English Provenance Oliver Cromwell Oil Painting After he painting of Oliver Cromwell by Robert Walker.   Inscribed in pencil on stretcher and frame.  We are in the process downsizing and selling off paintings that we have acquired over the years.  Up for sale is a museum quality oil painting of Oliver Cromwell.  We had purchased this painting to go with other English art that we had acquired and it crowded the other paintings.  The original owner had acquired  the painting from Pembroke Antiques in Williamsburg Virginia and had the original labels and purchase price ($3500).  The Pembroke Antique label states that it is late 1700s but others have stated that it could possible be early 1800s but we are comfortable to suggest that it is certainly within this period.  The painting measure 17 1/2 X 14 inches.  With the frame, it is 18 X 21 inches.  The painting is in excellent condition.  The frame in good condition but believe it is the original frame.  Additionally, it is believed that the frame is carved and not gesso.  From wikipedia: Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658)was an English and leader and later of the . Born into the middle , Cromwell was relatively obscure for the first 40 years of his life. After undergoing a in the 1630s, he became an , taking a generally tolerant view towards the many Protestant sects of his period. An intensely religious man—a self-styled —he fervently believed that God was guiding his victories. He was elected Member of Parliament for in 1628 and for in the (1640) and . He entered the on the side of the "" or Parliamentarians. Nicknamed "Old ", he was quickly promoted from leading a single cavalry troop to become one of the principal commanders of the , playing an important role in the defeat of the . Cromwell was one of the signatories of 's death warrant in 1649, and, as a member of the (1649–53), he dominated the short-lived . He was selected to take command of the English campaign in Ireland in 1649–50. Cromwell's forces defeated the Confederate and Royalist coalition in Ireland and occupied the country – bringing to an end the . During this period a series of Penal Laws were passed against Roman Catholics (a significant minority in England and Scotland but the vast majority in Ireland), and a substantial amount of their land was confiscated. Cromwell also led a campaign against the Scottish army between 1650 and 1651. On 20 April 1653 he dismissed the Rump Parliament by force, setting up a short-lived nominated assembly known as , before being invited by his fellow leaders to rule as of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from 16 December 1653. As a ruler he executed an aggressive and effective foreign policy. After his death from natural causes in 1658 he was buried in , but after the in 1660 they had his corpse . Cromwell is one of the most controversial figures in the , considered a dictator by historians such as , a military dictator by ,but a hero of liberty by and , and a class revolutionary by . In a 2002 BBC poll in Britain, Cromwell was selected as one of the . However, his measures against Catholics in Scotland and Ireland have been characterised as or near-genocidal,and in Ireland his record is harshly criticised.