Frans van der Mijn

Frans van der Mijn
Dutch/English, 1719-1783
Portrait of Thomas Harrison of Bletchley Park
Oil on canvas, within a painted oval
29 x 23 inches (73.7 x 58.5 cm)
Thomas Harrison, steward to the Earls Spencer, built the original house and estate at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. During World War II, the estate became a center of British intelligence cryptography, and it was here that the Enigma cipher was ultimately broken.

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