William Frederick Yeames was a British painter best known for his oil-on-canvas "And When Did You Last See Your Father?", which depicts the son of a Royalist being questioned by Parliamentarians during the English Civil War.
Portrait by David Wilkie Wynfield
Amy Robsart (1877). Yeames favoured Tudor and Stuart subjects, and was fascinated by the events surrounding the death of Amy Robsart, the first wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.
Amy Robsart (1870)
Yeames by J. P. Mayall from "Artists at Home", photogravure, published 1884, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
Roundheads were the supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642–1651). Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against King Charles I of England and his supporters, known as the Cavaliers or Royalists, who claimed rule by absolute monarchy and the principle of the divine right of kings. The goal of the Roundheads was to give to Parliament the supreme control over executive administration of the country/kingdom.
A Roundhead as portrayed by John Pettie (1839–1893)
A Roundhead inquisitor asks a son of a Cavalier, "And when did you last see your father?"—William Frederick Yeames (1878).
