George Fleetwood

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George Fleetwood

by Samuel Cooper
watercolour on vellum, 1647
2 1/4 in. x 1 3/4 in. (57 mm x 44 mm) oval
Bequeathed by George Gery Milner-Gibson-Cullum, 1922
Primary Collection
NPG 1925

On display in Room 5 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery

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  • Samuel Cooper (1608?-1672), Miniature painter. Artist or producer associated with 111 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.

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  • Foskett, Daphne, Samuel Cooper, 1974 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 15 March - 15 June 1974), p. 16
  • Piper, David, Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, 1625-1714, 1963, p. 128
  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 221
  • Walker, Richard, Miniatures: 300 Years of the English Miniature, 1998, p. 35 Read entry

    General Fleetwood was MP for Buckinghamshire and a signatory of Charles I's death warrant. He was condemned to death but never executed. John Maitland, a notriously harsh Secretary of State for Scotland, and from 1670 the Duke of Lauderdale, was an uncompromising exponent of Stuart absolutism. His thorough refurbishment and redecoration of Ham House in Richmond, Surrey, has left the nation a profoundly interesting treasury of a seventeenth-century way of life, and is perhaps his most lasting memorial.

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Current affairs

Putney debaters. Civilian Levellers and parliamentary soldiers discuss a new constitution for the country; discussions focus on drafted proposals from both groups with Commissary-General Henry Ireton attempting to moderate the Levellers's radical Agreement of the People.
Scots surrender Charles I to Parliament. Imprisoned at various locations, Charles enjoys relative freedom.

Art and science

Mariner, Sir Robert Dudley, publishes his maritime encyclopedia, Dell' Arcano del Mare with illustrations by Antonio Francesco Lucini. Written in Italian, the pioneering work includes cartography by Dudley of the earliest printed sea atlas of the world.
Anglo-Dutch portrait painter, Daniel Mytens, Van Dyck's predecessor as court painter, dies.

International

Released from the Tower, George Monck, Duke of Albemarle, is appointed commander of Parliament's forces in eastern Ulster.
The Irish Confederate suffer resounding defeats at the battles of Dungan's Hill and Knocknanauss against English Parliamentary forces.

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