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Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville

5 of 7 portraits by Philippe de Champaigne

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Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville

by Robert Nanteuil, after Philippe de Champaigne
engraving, 1655
10 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. (268 mm x 191 mm) plate size; 11 1/4 in. x 8 1/8 in. (287 mm x 206 mm) paper size
Given by Henry Witte Martin, 1861
Reference Collection
NPG D37675

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  • Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674), Painter and draughtsman. Artist or producer associated with 7 portraits.
  • Robert Nanteuil (1623?-1678), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 16 portraits.

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Current affairs

Secretary of State, John Thurloe, implements a highly efficient intelligence service and thwarts plans for a series of royalist uprisings which produced only Penruddock's revolt.
Following ineffectual royalist riots, Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, appoints nineteen Major-generals to manage regional government and prevent future challenges to the protectorate.

Art and science

Publication of the controversial work De corpore, by philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, prompts mathematician, John Wallis to scornfully refute the work in Elenchus geometriae Hobbianae, starting a bitter, long-running polemical dispute between the two men.



International

General Robert Venables and Admiral William Penn lead an expedition to the Caribbean to threaten Spanish trade routes and weaken Catholic influence in the New World. An integral part of Cromwell's foreign policy to curb Spanish power, the campaign, Cromwell's 'western design', fails leading to war in Europe.

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