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Mary Grimston

20 of 143 portraits by Willem Wissing

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Mary Grimston

after Willem Wissing
mezzotint, late 17th century
4 7/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (125 mm x 97 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D2539

Sitterback to top

  • Mary Grimston (1675-1684), Daughter of Sir Samuel Grimston, Bt. Sitter in 3 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • Willem Wissing (1656-1687), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 147 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG D34973: Mary Grimston and an unknown boy (based on same portrait)
  • NPG D2538: Mary Grimston (based on same portrait)

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Events of 1670back to top

Current affairs

Charles II mistress, Barbara Villiers, is created Duchess of Cleveland and granted Nonsuch Palace including its sizeable grounds.
Actress and royal mistress, Nell Gwyn, gives birth to Charles II's son, Charles, who would later become, Duke of St. Albans.

Art and science

Tragicomedy, The Forc'd Marriage, by Aphra Behn, staged by the Duke's Company, starts Behn's career as a professional writer. The writer may have been a royalist spy towards the end of the interregnum.
Poet laureate, John Dryden, is made historiographer royal, a post he would hold for nearly 20 years.

International

Terms of a secret treaty between Charles II and Louis XIV are brought by Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans during a visit to Dover; upon England supplying the majority of military power for a war against Holland and Charles's official conversion to Catholicism, France would assist financially.

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