Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain
by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, 1652
9 1/8 in. x 6 5/8 in. (231 mm x 167 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D7974
Sitterback to top
- Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain (1634-1696), Queen Consort of Philip IV of Spain. Sitter in 4 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), Etcher. Artist or producer associated with 540 portraits, Sitter associated with 10 portraits.
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Events of 1652back to top
Current affairs
Politician, Sir Henry Vane, the younger, in promoting English liberties on Scotland rather than pursing its annexation, achieves its nominal consent for inclusion to the emerging republican commonwealth.Art and science
Nicholas Culpeper, herbalist and astrologer, publishes The English Physitian. Extensively illustrated, Culpeper book written in the tradition of astrological medicine, lists native medicinal herbs indexed to common diseases.Architect, Inigo Jones dies at Somerset House.
Clergyman, Peter Heylyn, publishes Cosmographie, a comprehensive description of the known world.
International
First Anglo-Dutch war, fought entirely at sea, erupts principally over trade disputes. General at Sea, Robert Blake, leads the navy in the first encounters against the Dutch navy commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp.Oliver Cromwell's Act of Settlement of Ireland imposes death penalties and confiscates land from Irish Catholics.
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