Sir Thomas Edmondes

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Sir Thomas Edmondes

by Daniel Mytens
oil on canvas, 1622
50 1/2 in. x 40 in. (1283 mm x 1016 mm)
Purchased, 1968
Primary Collection
NPG 4652

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  • Daniel Mytens (circa 1590-1647), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 50 portraits, Sitter in 5 portraits.

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Edmondes was appointed Treasurer of the Household by James, and is shown here with the white rod of that office. Recent cleaning of this portrait has revealed the signature of the important Jacobean court artist, Daniel Mytens, and the date, 1622.

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Current affairs

Lawyer and legal politician, Sir Edward Coke, is imprisoned in the Tower, and later under house arrest, ostensibly for asserting the right to debate commonweath matters in Parliament.
The first race held at Newmarket is run between horses belonging to William Cecil, Earl of Salisbury and Marquis of Buckingham.

Art and science

The Tragedy of Othello, by playwright William Shakespeare, is published in quarto format for the first time by Thomas Walkley.
Masque of Augurs, written by Benjamin Jonson, and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at the newly built Banqueting House at Whitehall.

International

Peace conference convenes in Brussels endeavouring to end the escalating crisis in Europe. James I, involved in initiating the conference, sends politician Sir Richard Weston, Earl of Portland, to negotiate recovery of the Palatinate from Habsburg forces.
In Northern America, Algonquian Indians kill hundreds of English settlers around Jamestown.

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