William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven
copy by George Perfect Harding, after Unknown artist
ink and wash, 1800-1853, based on a work of circa 1650
5 1/4 in. x 3 7/8 in. (133 mm x 98 mm)
Purchased, 1938
Primary Collection
NPG 3018
Sitterback to top
- William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (1606-1697), Soldier, Royalist and Privy Councillor. Sitter in 15 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- George Perfect Harding (1779 or 1780-1853), Portrait painter, copyist and antiquary. Artist or producer associated with 173 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Unknown artist, Artist. Artist or producer associated with 6577 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Piper, David, Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, 1625-1714, 1963, p. 89
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 151
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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