Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich

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Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich

by Sir Peter Lely
oil on canvas, circa 1655-1659
30 in. x 25 in. (762 mm x 635 mm)
Purchased, 1982
Primary Collection
NPG 5488

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Artistback to top

  • Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 843 portraits, Sitter in 19 portraits.

Linked publicationsback to top

  • Ollard, Richard, Character Sketches: Samuel Pepys and His Circle, 2000, p. 14
  • Ollard, Richard, Pepys and his Contemporaries, 2015, p. 18
  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 547
  • Simon, Jacob, The Art of the Picture Frame: Artists, Patrons and the Framing of Portraits in Britain, 1997 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 8 November 1996 - 9 February 1997), p. 91, 154 Read entry

    Carved and gilt oak with slight chamfer at back, mason's mitre, the back frame replaced, the gilding distressed showing the gesso. 3 3⁄ 4 to 5 inches wide, 6 inches at top cresting.

    This portrait of the Admiral, Edward Montagu, created Earl of Sandwich in 1660, has an early Sunderland frame very similar to that on NPG 5461, but on a different scale.

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Current affairs

Secretary of State, John Thurloe, implements a highly efficient intelligence service and thwarts plans for a series of royalist uprisings which produced only Penruddock's revolt.
Following ineffectual royalist riots, Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, appoints nineteen Major-generals to manage regional government and prevent future challenges to the protectorate.

Art and science

Publication of the controversial work De corpore, by philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, prompts mathematician, John Wallis to scornfully refute the work in Elenchus geometriae Hobbianae, starting a bitter, long-running polemical dispute between the two men.



International

General Robert Venables and Admiral William Penn lead an expedition to the Caribbean to threaten Spanish trade routes and weaken Catholic influence in the New World. An integral part of Cromwell's foreign policy to curb Spanish power, the campaign, Cromwell's 'western design', fails leading to war in Europe.

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