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Henry, Duke of Gloucester

after Johann Boeckhorst
oil on canvas, circa 1659, based on a work of circa 1659
41 1/4 in. x 33 3/4 in. (1048 mm x 857 mm)
Given by Harold Lee-Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon, 1922
Primary Collection
NPG 1932

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Artistback to top

  • Johann Boeckhorst (1605-1668), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.

Linked publicationsback to top

  • Piper, David, Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, 1625-1714, 1963, p. 139
  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 250

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Current affairs

Amid fears of a military insurrection and petitions calling for the re-establishment of the Commonwealth, Lord Protector, Richard Cromwell resigns. The Rump Parliament is reinstated, abolishing the Protectorate.
Royalist uprising, led by Colonel George Booth, is suppressed.
Anne Hyde secretly marries James, Duke of York in the Netherlands.

Art and science

Dutch astronomer, Christiaan Huygens, publishes Systema Saturnium, expounding his theory that rings surround planet Saturn. It also includes the first known drawing of the Orion Nebula.
Diarist, John Evelyn, publishes the pro-royalist tracts, A Character of England and An Apology for the Royal Party, two of his earliest works.


International

The position of Henry Cromwell, younger son of Oliver Cromwell, as chief administrator of Ireland collapses soon after the fall of his brother, Richard Cromwell and the Protectorate. He returns to England in June, never to return to Ireland.

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Marc Lemahieu

21 August 2022, 12:35

The original work was made in 1657 by Jan van Broeckhost as a gift from the duke to the Saint-Sebastian shooting guild where he became member in 1656. The painting still exists.
In 1660, after the sudden dead of te duke on the 13tn of September of the smallpox (?), a copy was made by Pauwels Ryckx and paid for by the guild : Betaelt aan Pauwels Rycx de somme van drie ponden zes schellingen acht grooten over reste ende volle betaelynghe van het conterfaitsel vanden Hertog van Clochester…