Cecilia Killigrew (née Crofts)

1 portrait of Cecilia Killigrew (née Crofts)

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Cecilia Killigrew (née Crofts)

by Wenceslaus Hollar, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
etching, 1652
10 7/8 in. x 7 3/8 in. (275 mm x 186 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D29199

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Artistsback to top

  • Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), Etcher. Artist or producer associated with 540 portraits, Sitter associated with 10 portraits.
  • Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 1023 portraits, Sitter associated with 30 portraits.

Events of 1652back to top

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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Cathy Reed

15 June 2016, 12:14

Cecilia nee Crofts Killigrew is reported to have died Jan 1, 1638. The Royal Collection holds a portrait of her husband, Thomas Killigrew, supposedly in mourning. See RC 407426. Alternately see page 112 (no 47 Thomas Killigrew and another Gentleman) in Hearn's Van Dyck & Britain