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John Lambert

by Francis Place, after Robert Walker
mezzotint, 1670s (circa 1650-1655)
12 1/8 in. x 8 3/4 in. (309 mm x 222 mm) plate size; 12 3/8 in. x 8 7/8 in. (313 mm x 227 mm) paper size
Given by Mr F.W.B. Maufe and Mrs G.B. Lane, 1950
Reference Collection
NPG D3529

Sitterback to top

  • John Lambert (1619-1684), Parliamentary general. Sitter associated with 16 portraits.

Artistsback to top

  • Francis Place (1647-1728), Printmaker and potter. Artist or producer associated with 20 portraits.
  • Robert Walker (1599-1658), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 143 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG 252: John Lambert (based on same portrait)
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  • NPG D37141: John Lambert (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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