Portrait of Sir Benjamin Keene (1697-1757) mb-code RS-8634 The allegorical story in Comus

The allegorical story in Comus centres on a virtuous lady who becomes separated from her two brothers while traveling in the woods

In the end

View with cattle and figures

head and body angled to the viewer's left

Portrait of Sir Benjamin Keene (1697-1757) mb-code RS-8634 The allegorical story in ComusThree quarter length portrait of Keene in a brocaded coat and waistcoat bearing the ribbon and star of the Order of the Bath. The sitter wears a shoulder length grey wig and carries a tri corner hat his left hand, leaning this against a chair back. In his right hand is a paper bearing the inscription: 'Serenisimo et Potentis Principi D. Ferdinando Hispaniorum et India Regi Catholico &c.' An additional inscription appears above the sitter's head: 'Sir