Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
1 of 11 portraits of Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
by Unknown artist
oil on panel, late 16th-early 17th century
45 in. x 35 in. (1143 mm x 889 mm)
Given by in memory of A.C.J. Borrett, by his parents, 1950
Primary Collection
NPG 3783
Sitterback to top
- Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley (1540?-1617), Lord Chancellor. Sitter associated with 11 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 72
- Strong, Roy, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, p. 23
Events of 1570back to top
Current affairs
Pope Pius V issues a Papal 'bull' excommunicating Queen Elizabeth I from the Catholic Church. The bull provokes widespread anti-Catholicism in England.Elizabeth contemplates marriage with either Charles, Archduke of Austria or Henri, Duke of Anjou.
Art and science
Publication of The Scholemaster by the royal tutor Roger Ascham, which popularises the educational views of the English nobility.The mathematician and antiquary John Dee's preface to the first English translation of Euclid's Elements of Geometrie anticipates the experimental science of the seventeenth century.
The Italian architect Andrea Palladio published I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (The Four Books of Architecture).
International
Treaty of St Germain-en-Laye ends the Third War of Religion in France. Huguenots (French Protestants) are granted religious freedom and the Huguenot leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny becomes a dominant force at court.The Treaty of Stettin - Denmark agrees to recognise the independence of Sweden and Sweden abandons its claim to Norway.
Ivan IV (the Terrible), Tsar of Russia, oversees the Massacre of Novgorod.
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