possibly Anton Fugger

1 portrait of Anton Fugger

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possibly Anton Fugger

by Wenceslaus Hollar, probably after Sebastiano del Piombo
etching, 1650 or after
10 3/8 in. x 7 3/8 in. (263 mm x 188 mm) plate size; 14 in. x 10 1/4 in. (355 mm x 260 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D18031

Sitterback to top

  • Anton Fugger (1493-1560), German banker. Sitter associated with 1 portrait.

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  • Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 6 portraits.
  • Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), Etcher. Artist or producer associated with 540 portraits, Sitter associated with 10 portraits.

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Current affairs

Exiled Charles, Prince of Wales, holds negotiations in the Netherlands, with the Scottish Parliament to secure an alliance. Despite misgivings on both sides, and pressure from the Scots for Charles to sign the covenants, the treaty of Breda is agreed.
Oliver Cromwell defeats the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar.

Art and science

Poet and politician, Andrew Marvell, composes his greatest political poem, Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland. Marvell become Oliver Cromwell's unofficial poet laureate during the Protectorate.

International

William, The Prince of Orange, grandson of Charles I, is born assuming the title from the moment of birth. Forty years later, he would become William III of England.
General-at-Sea, Robert Blake is dispatched to Portugal to prevent attacks on Commonwealth merchant shipping from royalist, Prince Rupert, based in Lisbon.

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Anna Bisceglia

09 April 2018, 12:08

To whom it may concern,

the sitter's name is related with a XIV painter, author of the Triumph of Death in Pisa, Cemetery. But I hardly can believe that it is its portrait. The inscription below states, instead, that this is a member of the casa Fuchera, which means the Fugger family, german bankers based in Rome during the first 20 years of XVI century.

Anna Bisceglia
curator
Gallerie degli Uffizi