"Richard, Duke of Gloucester, at Middleham Castle"

by Graham Turner

Open Edition Print published from an oil painting.
Overall print size, including border - 20"x 17" (50cm x 43cm)

Following the death of the Earl of Warwick at the battle of Barnet in 1471, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was granted the Lordship of Middleham in Yorkshire. He had spent many formative years there as a boy, in the care of Warwick, and it is generally accepted that he preferred Middleham to his other castles. In 1472 he married Warwick's youngest daughter, Anne Neville, and their only son, Edward, was born in the castle in c.1473