John Lacy

1 portrait by John Michael Wright

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John Lacy

after John Michael Wright
watercolour, (circa 1668-1670)
8 3/8 in. x 6 7/8 in. (212 mm x 175 mm) paper size
Given by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt, 1913
Reference Collection
NPG D20027

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  • NPG D37127: John Lacy in 3 of his roles (based on same portrait)

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Current affairs

An illicit affair between George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham and beauty, Anna Maria, Countess of Shrewsbury, leads to a notorious duel during which Villiers mortally wounds Shrewsbury's husband, Francis Talbot.
William Penn, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, is imprisoned after producing pamphlets advocating Quakerism.

Art and science

Writer, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle republishes her science fiction work, The Description of a New World, called the Blazing-World, as a separate edition, originally published as an appendix to her Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, (1666).
Poet John Dryden is appointed poet laureate.

International

Diplomat and writer, Sir William Temple, negotiates the Triple Alliance between England, Holland and Sweden to protect the Spanish Netherlands from French expansion during the War of Devolution. The union ultimately forces Louis XIV to sign the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle and retreat from the Habsburg-controlled Netherlands.

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Kare Beck

22 November 2019, 13:55

Mr John Lacy was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. He was first a dancing master, then went into the Army becoming a Lieutenant and Quarter master. After this he became a player/actor and was highly esteemed for this, so much so that King Charles II had his picture painted, believed to be at Windsor.