Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

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Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

by Unknown artist
oil on panel, 1601
43 1/2 in. x 34 1/2 in. (1105 mm x 876 mm)
Purchased, 1957
Primary Collection
NPG 4024

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  • Unknown artist, Artist. Artist or producer associated with 6577 portraits.

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The white rod of office Sackville holds in this portrait probably refers to his appointment as Lord High Steward. A similar face pattern to that used to produce this portrait was used in the depiction of the sitter in The Somerset House Conference. This painting may have been produced within the workshop of John de Critz the Elder.

Linked publicationsback to top

  • Bolland, Charlotte, The Tudors Passion, Power and Politics, 2022, p. 145
  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 184
  • Strong, Roy, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, p. 67

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Events of 1601back to top

Current affairs

Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex marches on the City but the rebellion fails. He is proclaimed a traitor and executed.
A Spanish fleet lands in Ireland to assist the Catholic rebellion. Lord Mountjoy leads the English army to victory over the Irish and Spanish force at the Battle of Kinsale.
Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury begins secret negotiations with James VI of Scotland to secure a peaceful handover of power after the Queen's death.

Art and science

William Shakespeare writes Twelfth Night.
The poet and clergyman John Donne begins The Progress of the Soul, an unfinished satire on the soul of the apple eaten by Eve.
The Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Edward Phelips builds Montacute House, Somerset.
Sir James Lancaster leads the first trading venture of the East India Company to acquire spices from Sumatra.

International

Spanish Hapsburg forces lay siege of the United Provinces port of Ostend. The town surrenders in 1604 after one of the longest sieges in history and bloodiest battles of the Eighty Years' War, during which the Protestant United Provinces of the northern Netherlands fought for independence from Spain.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, ruler of Japan, makes his capital at Yedo (present-day Tokyo).

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