Robert Boyle

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Robert Boyle

after Johann Kerseboom
oil on canvas, feigned oval, based on a work of circa 1689-1690
29 3/4 in. x 24 1/2 in. (756 mm x 622 mm)
Purchased, 1885
Primary Collection
NPG 734

On display at Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley

Sitterback to top

  • Robert Boyle (1627-1691), Chemist and natural philosopher. Sitter associated with 22 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • Johann Kerseboom (died 1708), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 32 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG 3930: Robert Boyle (variant version)

Linked publicationsback to top

  • Hackmann, W.D., Apples and Atoms: Portraits of Scientists from Newton to Rutherford, 1986, p. 20
  • Piper, David, Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, 1625-1714, 1963, p. 31
  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 71

Events of 1689back to top

Current affairs

William III is crowned jointly with his wife Mary II in Westminster Abbey in an unprecedented coronation of two monarchs.
The Bill of Rights is passed establishing the supremacy of Parliament, while limiting the power of the Crown.
Scottish Jacobites defeat Williamite troops at the Battle of Killiiecrankie.

Art and science

Thomas Shadwell, appointed poet laureate and historiographer royal, replaces John Dryden, his literary adversary.
John Riley and Godfrey Kneller are jointly appointed principal painter to the king.
Composer Henry Purcell presents his opera, Dido and Aeneas, at Josias Priest's girls' school.

International

Supported by Irish Catholics, deposed James II lands in Ireland with French troops commanded by Duc de Lauzun. Within months, James and Jacobite, Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnel convene the 'Patriot Parliament' which re-establishes Catholics into government and repeals the Act of Settlement (1652), restoring confiscated lands to Catholic owners.

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