Tobie (or Tobias) Matthew
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobie (or Tobias) Matthew
by Unknown artist
oil on panel, 1616
21 5/8 in. x 17 1/2 in. (549 mm x 445 mm)
Purchased, 1896
Primary Collection
NPG 1048
Linked publicationsback to top
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 420
- Strong, Roy, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, p. 225
Events of 1616back to top
Current affairs
Playwright, William Shakespeare, dies in Stratford-Upon-Avon on 23rd April, after he contracted a fever. He is buried days later inside Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.James I's second son, Charles, is invested as Prince of Wales at a lavish ceremony at Whitehall.
Art and science
Poet and playwright Benjamin Jonson, is granted a royal pension effectively establishing him as the first poet laureate in all but name.Queen Anne commissions Inigo Jones to design a pavilion at Greenwich, the Queen's House.
International
Sir Walter Ralegh, released from prison, begins planning an expedition to Guiana in search of El Dorado. With established Spanish settlements in the area, Ralegh's expedition unsettled the court which sought lasting peace with Spain.The Catholic Church places Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus, 1543, on its list of prohibited books.
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