Robert ('Beau') Feilding
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert ('Beau') Feilding
published by John Savage
mezzotint, late 17th century
4 3/4 in. x 3 3/4 in. (122 mm x 95 mm) plate size, cut to plate size
Purchased, 1944
Reference Collection
NPG D11968
Sitterback to top
- Robert ('Beau') Feilding (1650 or 1651-1712), Rake and bigamist. Sitter in 14 portraits.
Artistback to top
- John Savage (active 1683-1700), Engraver and publisher; successor to Isaac Beckett at the Golden Head, Old Bailey. Artist or producer associated with 11 portraits.
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Current affairs
William Howard, Viscount Stafford, is convicted of impeachment and beheaded on account of his alleged involvement in the Popish Plot.Whigs' sponsorship of a pope-burning procession, for the second consecutive year, supports their campaign to exclude James, Duke of York from the throne.
Art and science
Writer, John Bunyan, publishes, The Life and Death of Mr. Badman. Novelistic in form and conceived as a dialogue between two gentlemen, the book was intended as a sequel to the first part of The Pilgrim's Progress.International
Revelations surface of a Catholic uprising in Ireland with French support. The government launches an inquiry, ultimately leading to the execution of Oliver Plunket, Archbishop of Armagh.Secretary of State, Robert Spencer, in adopting an anti-French foreign policy, forges a defensive Anglo-Spanish treaty while seeking an alliance with the Dutch.
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