Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway

by Jacobus Houbraken, after Unknown artist
line engraving, published 1749
14 5/8 in. x 9 in. (370 mm x 230 mm) plate size; 14 7/8 in. x 9 5/8 in. (378 mm x 246 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D9347

Sitterback to top

Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway (1577-1648), Reigned 1588-1648. Sitter associated with 13 portraits.

Artistsback to top

Jacobus Houbraken (1698-1780), Engraver. Artist associated with 435 portraits.
Unknown artist, Artist. Artist associated with 6556 portraits.

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Line engraving

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Current affairs

Royal Fireworks in Green Park to celebrate the Peace of Aix-La-Chapelle. 10,000 rockets are let off at a cost of £8,000. Composer George Frideric Handel's accompanying Music for the Royal Fireworks is performed for the first time.
George II is introduced to William Ansah Sessarakoo the 'Prince of Annamaboe'. The son of a wealthy chief from the West African Gold Coast, he had been taken prisoner and made a slave in the West Indies.

Art and science

Horace Walpole buys the house and grounds which he will transform into his neo-Gothic fantasy, Strawberry Hill, in Twickenham, London.
Henry Fielding publishes his comic novel Tom Jones.
John Cleland's erotic novel Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) is published. The author is released from debtor's prison but arrested again later in the year and charged with corrupting the King's subjects.

International

George II grants a charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio valley in the American colonies.
British settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded.
Sugar planters found Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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