Vincent Wing

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Vincent Wing

by Thomas Cross, after Unknown artist
line engraving, published 1652
8 7/8 in. x 5 3/4 in. (225 mm x 146 mm) plate size; 9 1/4 in. x 6 1/8 in. (235 mm x 156 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D30331

Sitterback to top

  • Vincent Wing (1619-1668), Astronomer. Sitter in 1 portrait.

Artistsback to top

  • Thomas Cross (active 1644-1682), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 168 portraits.
  • Unknown artist, Artist. Artist or producer associated with 6577 portraits.

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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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