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Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby

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Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby

by Unknown artist
oil on panel, late 16th century
24 in. x 19 1/2 in. (610 mm x 495 mm) overall
Given by John Morton Morris in honour of Sandy Nairne CBE, Director of the National Portrait Gallery 2002-2015, 2015
Primary Collection
NPG 7000

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  • Unknown artist, Artist. Artist or producer associated with 6578 portraits.

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The portrait shows Henry Stanley wearing the Greater George of the Order of the Garter, to which he was admitted in 1574, and includes his coat of arms. The picture is unsigned but the technique suggests an English artist and the paint handling shows considerable sensitivity to the details of the costume.

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  • Bolland, Charlotte, The Tudors Passion, Power and Politics, 2022, p. 114

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Current affairs

Pope Pius V issues a Papal 'bull' excommunicating Queen Elizabeth I from the Catholic Church. The bull provokes widespread anti-Catholicism in England.
Elizabeth contemplates marriage with either Charles, Archduke of Austria or Henri, Duke of Anjou.

Art and science

Publication of The Scholemaster by the royal tutor Roger Ascham, which popularises the educational views of the English nobility.
The mathematician and antiquary John Dee's preface to the first English translation of Euclid's Elements of Geometrie anticipates the experimental science of the seventeenth century.
The Italian architect Andrea Palladio published I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (The Four Books of Architecture).

International

Treaty of St Germain-en-Laye ends the Third War of Religion in France. Huguenots (French Protestants) are granted religious freedom and the Huguenot leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny becomes a dominant force at court.
The Treaty of Stettin - Denmark agrees to recognise the independence of Sweden and Sweden abandons its claim to Norway.
Ivan IV (the Terrible), Tsar of Russia, oversees the Massacre of Novgorod.

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