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6 June 1643: Henry Spencer created Earl of Sunderland #otd. He had acted as volunteer in the King's Guard at the Battle of Edgehill, and may have also made a large loan to Charles I. He didn't enjoy the title long as he d. at the Battle of Newbury 20 Sept 1643 (BM)
Frontispiece from Thomas Sprat's "The History of the Royal Society of London"
1667
Wenceslaus Hollar
(Met Museum)
Chrysanthemum,
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)
3 June 1654 ns: d. Alethea Howard, 14th Baroness Talbot, 17th Baroness Strange of Blackmere, 13th Baroness Furnivall, Countess of Arundel, 1585-1654 in Amsterdam #otd
She was a contributor to this 1655 receipt book.
(Alte Pinakothek/U Toronto/eebo)
River Landscape with a Woman Carrying a Basket on her Head, Fishermen and Other Figures near the Walls of a Town, Hendrick Avercamp, before c. 1620.
(Rijkmuseum)
1 June 1660: execution of Mary Dyer #otd at Boston Massachusetts for being a Quaker
A Witches’ Sabbath
c. 1650
Cornelis Saftleven
(Art Institute Chicago)
The artist died #otd 1 June 1681.
Pair of Lovers in a Formal Garden,
Gesina ter Borch, 18 June 1658
(Rijksmuseum)