Christopher Love
9 of 20 portraits by Cornelis Johnson Jr (Jonson van Ceulen)
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Christopher Love
by Thomas Cross, after Cornelis Johnson Jr (Jonson van Ceulen)
line engraving, circa 1652
6 1/8 in. x 4 in. (155 mm x 103 mm) plate size; 7 1/4 in. x 4 7/8 in. (183 mm x 125 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D42601
Sitterback to top
- Christopher Love (1618-1651), Puritan divine executed for treason. Sitter associated with 22 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Thomas Cross (active 1644-1682), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 168 portraits.
- Cornelis Johnson Jr (Jonson van Ceulen) (1634-1715), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 20 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D28843: Christopher Love (from same plate)
- NPG D28842: Christopher Love (from same plate)
Events of 1652back to top
Current affairs
Politician, Sir Henry Vane, the younger, in promoting English liberties on Scotland rather than pursing its annexation, achieves its nominal consent for inclusion to the emerging republican commonwealth.Art and science
Nicholas Culpeper, herbalist and astrologer, publishes The English Physitian. Extensively illustrated, Culpeper book written in the tradition of astrological medicine, lists native medicinal herbs indexed to common diseases.Architect, Inigo Jones dies at Somerset House.
Clergyman, Peter Heylyn, publishes Cosmographie, a comprehensive description of the known world.
International
First Anglo-Dutch war, fought entirely at sea, erupts principally over trade disputes. General at Sea, Robert Blake, leads the navy in the first encounters against the Dutch navy commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp.Oliver Cromwell's Act of Settlement of Ireland imposes death penalties and confiscates land from Irish Catholics.
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