Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban
1 portrait by Frederick Hendrik van Hove
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban
by Frederick Hendrik van Hove, after Simon de Passe
line engraving, circa 1650-1690
6 1/8 in. x 3 3/4 in. (157 mm x 95 mm) plate size; 6 1/2 in. x 4 in. (164 mm x 102 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D21285
Sitterback to top
- Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561-1626), Philosopher and Lord Chancellor. Sitter associated with 63 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Simon de Passe (1595-1647), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 200 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.
- Frederick Hendrik van Hove (circa 1628-1698), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 79 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D21286: Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (from same plate)
- NPG D26069: Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (from same plate)
- NPG D20313: Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (from same plate)
Linked publicationsback to top
- EEBO (Early English Books Online), p. frontispiece
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Baconiana, or, Certain genuine remains of Sr Francis Bacon, baron of Verulam, and viscount of St. Albans in arguments civil and moral, natural, medical, theological, and bibliographical, now the first time faithfully published / an account of these remains, and of all his lordship's other works, is given by the publisher in a discourse by way of introduction, 1684, p. frontispiece
Events of 1650back to top
Current affairs
Exiled Charles, Prince of Wales, holds negotiations in the Netherlands, with the Scottish Parliament to secure an alliance. Despite misgivings on both sides, and pressure from the Scots for Charles to sign the covenants, the treaty of Breda is agreed.Oliver Cromwell defeats the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar.
Art and science
Poet and politician, Andrew Marvell, composes his greatest political poem, Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland. Marvell become Oliver Cromwell's unofficial poet laureate during the Protectorate.International
William, The Prince of Orange, grandson of Charles I, is born assuming the title from the moment of birth. Forty years later, he would become William III of England.General-at-Sea, Robert Blake is dispatched to Portugal to prevent attacks on Commonwealth merchant shipping from royalist, Prince Rupert, based in Lisbon.
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