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Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange

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Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange

by Cornelius Johnson (Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen)
oil on panel, 1639
11 3/8 in. x 7 7/8 in. (289 mm x 200 mm)
Purchased, 1976
Primary Collection
NPG 5105

On display at the Queen's House, London

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This portrait shows Mary before a view of a knot garden in which women and children are walking with a vista of a landscape beyond. It is one of three painted by Johnson of the royal children.

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Current affairs

First Bishop's War. Conflict between Scotland and England over the king's intention to replace Scottish Presbyterianism with High Anglicanism is fiercely opposed by Scottish covenanters. Both sides assemble armies with Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll emerging as leader of the covenanters. Only skirmishes occur, quickly leading to negotiations at Berwick.

Art and science

Archbishop Laud donates the Peterborough Chronicle, one of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, to the Bodleian Library.
Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks having predicted the transit of Venus in November, observes and records it. Horrocks's draft treatise on the planet's transit, Venus in sole visa, is posthumously published by Johannes Hevelius in 1662.

International

Naval Battle of the Downs. Dutch Admiral Maarten Tromp, decisively defeats the Spanish, under Admiral Antonio de Oquendo. It is fought in the English Channel.
Francis Day, of the British East India Company, acquires land from King of Chandragiri, and founds Fort St. George, which would later become Madras (Chennai).

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