Richard Gibson
Sir Patience Ward(e) (1629-1696), wearing black cloak and white lawn collar, his hair worn long, c. 1653
Watercolour on vellum
Oval, 71 mm (2 13/16 in) high
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Patience Ward owed his unusual name to his Puritan parents, who, hoping for a daughter after six sons vowed to call their new-born ‘Patience’, whatever the sex. Born in Yorkshire and initially persuaded towards a career in the church, Ward instead found that his calling was in trade and after a period as an apprentice became free of the Merchant Taylor’s Company in 1654-5. Just prior to that date he married Elizabeth Hobson (d.1685) of Hackney and it was possibly for this occasion that the present miniature was commissioned.
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