Robert Shirley
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Robert Shirley was an English traveller and adventurer, younger brother of Anthony Shirley and Thomas Shirley. He is notable for his role in modernizing and improving the Military of Safavid Iran in a
Sir Robert Shirley by Anthony van Dyck, 1622.
Double portrait of Robert Shirley and his Circassian wife Teresia, c.1624–1627. He wears the exotic Persian clothes which so impressed his European hosts upon his return to Europe from Persia; she wears her native style of dress but also holds a flintlock pistol and a pocket watch, symbols of the technologies Europe was introducing to Persia.
Painting of Robert Shirley visiting Pope Paul V in 1611, Sala dei Corazzieri, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome. Painted in 1615–1616
Sir Robert Shirley, by Anthony van Dyck, painted in Rome in 1622
Anthony Shirley
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Sir Anthony Shirley, also spelled Sherley, was an English adventurer, soldier, diplomat, and political theorist who became a prominent figure in early modern European and Middle Eastern affairs.
Robert Shirley
…Robert Shirley (or Sherley; 1628 (aged 46–47) , birth date July 13) was an English traveller and adventurer, younger brother of Anthony Shirley and Thomas Shirley. He is notable for his role in modernizing and improving the Military of Safavid Iran in accordance with the English model at the…
Engraving of Shirley possibly by Dominicus Custos
Portrait of Anthony Shirley by Aegidius Sadeler, 1601