Sir Thomas Fleming
1 portrait of Sir Thomas Fleming
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Thomas Fleming
by Unknown artist
oil on panel, 1596
29 1/2 in. x 23 5/8 in. (749 mm x 600 mm)
Given by Walter Strachan, 1917
Primary Collection
NPG 1799
Linked publicationsback to top
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 221
- Strong, Roy, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, p. 121
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (17 September 2005 - 18 December 2005)
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Events of 1596back to top
Current affairs
Fears of Spanish invasion of England and Ireland.An expedition under Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex and Charles Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham sacks Cádiz, Spain.
Robert Cecil (later Earl of Salisbury) is made Secretary of State.
Sir Francis Drake dies from fever during an expedition to attack Spanish territories in the New World.
Art and science
The poet and administrator Edmund Spenser publishes the last three books of The Faerie Queene, an epic allegorical poem in praise of Queen Elizabeth I.The unusual narrative portrait of the soldier and diplomat Henry Unton is commissioned by his widow.
The actor and theatre manager James Burbage builds Blackfriars Theatre, London.
International
Spanish forces capture Calais, France.The Battle of Keresztes - Mehmed III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire defeats the combined forces of Sigmund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania and Maximilian, Archduke of Austria.
Sigismund III of Poland transfers the capital of Poland from Kraków to Warsaw.
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