Sir Anthony Browne
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Anthony Browne
by Unknown artist
oil on panel, late 16th century
36 3/8 in. x 29 1/2 in. (924 mm x 749 mm)
Purchased, 1978
Primary Collection
NPG 5186
Sitterback to top
- Sir Anthony Browne (circa 1500-1548), Courtier and Master of the Horse. Sitter in 4 portraits.
This portraitback to top
The lengthy inscriptions in the portrait, which is probably a posthumous memorial to Browne, are biographical.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 82
Events of 1570back to top
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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