Prince Rupert, Count Palatine

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Prince Rupert, Count Palatine

by William Faithorne, published by Peter Stent, after William Dobson
line engraving, published 1662
11 3/8 in. x 7 7/8 in. (290 mm x 201 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D22928

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  • Prince Rupert, Count Palatine (1619-1682), Soldier and patron of science; son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and King of Bohemia and Elizabeth of Bohemia. Sitter associated with 45 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.

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  • William Dobson (1611-1646), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 50 portraits, Sitter in 9 portraits.
  • William Faithorne (circa 1620-1691), Engraver and draughtsman. Artist or producer associated with 720 portraits, Sitter associated with 4 portraits.
  • Peter Stent (circa 1613-1665), Printseller and printer. Artist or producer associated with 71 portraits.

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Dobson's oil portrait of Prince Rupert, the nephew of Charles I and one of his principal commanders in the Civil War, is now lost. Both Dobson and the engraver William Faithorne had been apprentices of the artist and printseller William Peake. During the Civil War, while Dobson worked for the court in Oxford, Faithorne fought as an officer in the Royalist army. He was captured in October 1645 at the bloody end of the two-year siege of Basing House, Hampshire. Remarkably, the prints were engraved during his imprisonment by Parliamentary forces.

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Current affairs

Marriage of Catherine of Braganza to Charles II. A spectacular pageant on the Thames greets Catherine as she arrives at Whitehall Palace.
Act of Uniformity, lays down requirements for the clergy to remain in the Church of England, forcing hundreds to be ejected from their livings.

Art and science

Physicist Robert Boyle publishes A Defence of the Doctrine, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, which contains the first formulation of Boyle's Law, describing the relationship between pressure and volume of gases.

International

Upon restoration of the monarchy, pro-royalist and Catholic Irish landlords, notably James Butler, Duke of Ormonde, appeal to the king to restore their lands confiscated during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. However, political wrangling and insufficient land renders the subsequent Act of Settlement, passed by the Irish Parliament, unworkable.

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