Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland

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Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland

attributed to John Hoskins
watercolour on vellum, 1630s
2 in. x 1 5/8 in. (51 mm x 41 mm) oval
Transferred from National Gallery, 1994
Primary Collection
NPG 6304

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  • John Hoskins (circa 1590-1665), Miniature painter. Artist or producer associated with 11 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

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  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 213
  • Walker, Richard, Miniatures: 300 Years of the English Miniature, 1998, p. 29 Read entry

    John Hoskins, Limner to Charles I (from 1640), bridges the gap between the Elizabethan and early Stuart artists, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, and the great seventeenth-century miniaturist Samuel Cooper. The Hoskins portraits of Charles I, Henrietta Maria, the Duke of Buckingham and other members of the court, such as Dudley North, 4th Baron North, a courtier, musician and MP for Cambridge, and Lucius Cary, who threw away his life at the first Battle of Newbury, at the start of the Civil War, show an artist at work with a new vigour. Their huge quantity and variety of style, however, suggest a large working studio.

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Current affairs

Charles I's first surviving child, Charles, is born in St. James's Palace. He is baptised by the Anglican Bishop of London, William Laud, and brought up in the care of the Protestant Mary Curzon, Countess of Dorset.

Art and science

The Cottonian Library, containing the greatest resource of Old English and Middle English literature, founded by antiquary and anti-royalist, Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, is confiscated by the authorities.

International

Philip IV of Spain and Charles I sign the Treaty of Madrid, ending hostilities between the two countries. Spanish diplomat, Cesare Alessandro Scaglia, assists with the conclusion of the peace deal.
German, Protestant land is regained from Catholic allies on account of Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.

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