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Dudley North, 4th Baron North

by John Hoskins
watercolour on vellum, circa 1628
2 3/8 in. x 1 7/8 in. (60 mm x 48 mm) oval
Transferred from National Gallery, 1994
Primary Collection
NPG 6303

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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. 462
  • 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

John Felton, a professional soldier, assassinates George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.
Lawyer and politician, Sir Edward Coke, leads the demand for a Petition of Right which sets out specific civil liberties while curbing Royal power. After much debate, it is reluctantly accepted by Charles I and passed in Parliament.

Art and science

Aged ten, poet Abraham Cowley writes his epic romance, Pyramus and Thisbe; it would appear in his first publication, Poetical blossoms, 1633, a collection of five poems.
Charles I purchases a substantial art collection from the Duke of Mantua, initially overseen by diplomat, Sir Isaac Wake.

International

The Huguenots surrender in La Rochelle to Catholic royalist forces. Attempts are made by England to assist the city; a final, unsuccessful expedition is dispatched by Robert Bertie, Earl of Lindsey, now head of the fleet since the death of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.

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