Aletheia Talbot, Countess of Arundel

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Aletheia Talbot, Countess of Arundel

by Richard Gaywood, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
etching, published 1655
6 1/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (155 mm x 99 mm) paper size
Given by Ernest E. Leggatt, before 1922-01-01
Reference Collection
NPG D18370

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Artistsback to top

  • Richard Gaywood (active 1644-1668), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 102 portraits.
  • Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 1023 portraits, Sitter associated with 30 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG D18368: Aletheia Talbot, Countess of Arundel (from same plate)
  • NPG D18369: Aletheia Talbot, Countess of Arundel (from same plate)

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Events of 1655back to top

Current affairs

Secretary of State, John Thurloe, implements a highly efficient intelligence service and thwarts plans for a series of royalist uprisings which produced only Penruddock's revolt.
Following ineffectual royalist riots, Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, appoints nineteen Major-generals to manage regional government and prevent future challenges to the protectorate.

Art and science

Publication of the controversial work De corpore, by philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, prompts mathematician, John Wallis to scornfully refute the work in Elenchus geometriae Hobbianae, starting a bitter, long-running polemical dispute between the two men.



International

General Robert Venables and Admiral William Penn lead an expedition to the Caribbean to threaten Spanish trade routes and weaken Catholic influence in the New World. An integral part of Cromwell's foreign policy to curb Spanish power, the campaign, Cromwell's 'western design', fails leading to war in Europe.

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