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The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators, 1605

3 of 7 portraits of Thomas Bates

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The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators, 1605

by Unknown artist
collotype, (circa 1605)
8 3/4 in. x 11 1/8 in. (221 mm x 284 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D2334

Artistback to top

  • Unknown artist, Artist. Artist or producer associated with 6578 portraits.

Sittersback to top

  • Thomas Bates (1567-1606), Gunpowder plot conspirator. Sitter in 7 portraits.
  • Robert Catesby (1573-1605), Leader of the Gunpowder plot. Sitter in 8 portraits.
  • Guy Fawkes (1570-1606), Gunpowder plot conspirator. Sitter in 7 portraits.
  • Thomas Percy (1560-1605), Organiser of the 'Gunpowder Plot'. Sitter in 14 portraits.
  • Robert Winter (1568-1606), Gunpowder plot conspirator. Sitter in 8 portraits.
  • Thomas Winter (1572-1606), Conspirator; brother of Robert Winter. Sitter in 7 portraits.
  • Christopher Wright (1570?-1605), Gunpowder plot conspirator. Sitter in 9 portraits.
  • John Wright (1568?-1605), Gunpowder plot conspirator; brother of Christopher Wright. Sitter in 7 portraits.

Events of 1605back to top

Current affairs

The Gunpowder Plot is foiled when Guy Fawkes is discovered with barrels of gunpowder under the House of Lords. The coup, to blow up the House at the State Opening of Parliament, thereby assassinating James I, was conceived by a group of Catholics angered by the king's repression of recusants.

Art and science

In the first of many collaborations with architect Inigo Jones, playwright Benjamin Jonson presents The Masque of Blackness for James I's, in which Queen Anne makes an appearance. The production secures future masque commissions for Jones and Jonson at court.
Philosopher, Francis Bacon, publishes his treatise The Advancement of Learning.

International

Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes publishes the first part of his satirically romantic novel Don Quixote.
Within a matter of months, three popes would ascend the papal throne, Clement VIII, Leo XI, Paul V respectively.

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