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Queen Mary II

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Queen Mary II

attributed to Jan van der Vaart
oil on canvas, circa 1692-1694
49 in. x 39 1/2 in. (1245 mm x 1003 mm)
Purchased, 1865
Primary Collection
NPG 197

Sitterback to top

  • Queen Mary II (1662-1694), Reigned with William III 1689-94. Sitter associated with 97 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • Jan van der Vaart (1647-1721), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 52 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG 606: Queen Mary II (based on same portrait)
  • NPG D48145: Queen Mary II (source portrait)

Linked publicationsback to top

  • Cannadine, Sir David (Introduction); Cooper, Tarnya; Stewart, Louise; MacGibbon, Rab; Cox, Paul; Peltz, Lucy; Moorhouse, Paul; Broadley, Rosie; Jascot-Gill, Sabina, Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits, 2018 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA, 7 October 2018 -3 February 2019. Bendigo Art Gallery, Australia, 16 March - 14 July 2019.), p. 118 Read entry

    Although this portrait shows Mary II as Queen of England, with the crown and sceptre beside her, it is based on an earlier portrait painted by Willem Wissing when she was in the Netherlands, where she is shown in an informal version of contemporary dress, which was fashionable in portraiture.

  • Ingamells, John, Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, 2009, p. 173
  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 416

Events of 1692back to top

Current affairs

Statesman and member of the Privy Council, John Churchill is dismissed from office by the monarchs and later imprisoned on suspicion of collaborating with Jacobites.
Jacobite sympathisers in the Scottish Highlands, the MacIain clan, are murdered by government troops led by Robert Campbell, in the Glencoe Massacre.

Art and science

Antiquary, Thomas Rymer, is appointed historiographer royal. Rymer would spend the rest of his life transcribing the history of England's alliances and treaties with foreign countries, publishing them in sixteen volumes.
Nahum Tate is appointed Poet Laureate.
Composer, Henry Purcell, stages the dramatic opera, The Fairy-Queen.

International

Attempts by French and Jacobite-Irish forces to invade England and restore James II to the English throne are thwarted at the naval Battle of La Hogue. The English victory is principally achieved by Vice-Admiral George Rooke's destruction of the enemy's fleet.

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