Sir Henry Vane the younger Kt.

Sir Henry Vane the younger (1613-62) was a puritan who emigrated to Boston Massachusetts between 1635-37. He became Governor of Massachusetts in 1636 but returned to England in 1637. He became joint-treasurer of the navy in 1636 and treasurer in 1639-41 and 1642-50, a leading figure in Parliament during the Commonwealth. He produced the pamphlet A Healing Question 1656, critical of the government, which led to imprisonment. At the restoration he was tried for treason and executed. Gerard Soest probably trained in the United Provinces before moving to England in the mid- to late 1640s. There he established a successful portrait practice, how works showing the influence of Dobson and Van Dyck.