Sir Richard Leveson, c1600, (1947). Portrait of English navy officer, politician and landowner Sir Richard Leveson (c1570-1605). Leveson was knighted for his successes during the Cadiz expedition in 1596, and was appointed Vice-Admiral of England by James I in 1604, the year before he died. After a miniature painted c1597-1600 by Isaac Oliver, in the Wallace Collection, London. From "The Saturday Book", Seventh Year, edited by Leonard Russell. [Hutchinson, St. Albans, 1947]