PORTRAIT OF THOMAS CHEYNEY, HEADMASTER OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Oil on canvas (H. 139 cm, W. 124 cm); inscribed lower left: Dr Cheyney
Thomas Cheyney was born in 1656 at Titcombe, Wiltshire. He was a Scholar of Winchester College, 1665-73; Fellow of New College, Oxford 1673-81, and Headmaster of Winchester College, 1700-1724.