John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Seated man with a pipe, late 17th century (Rijksmuseum)

29 Jan 1622: Francis Norris, Earl of Berkshire, shoots himself with a crossbow at his home at Rycote, Oxfordshire #otd Died 2 days later.

He'd humiliated himself by insulting Lord Scrope in the House of Lords the previous year in front of Charles, Prince of Wales (BM)

“Temperat Who's but Cittizens and Citty lasses
/ Not if they drinke much wine, and fill their glasses."

c. 1642-1649.

(British Museum)

Woman in an armchair
Rembrandt, c. 1654-60

(British Museum)

29 Jan 1553: John Hooper deprived bishop of #Gloucester is sentenced to death by fire #otd

He was burnt at #Gloucester on 9 Feb in an agonising spectacle as the pyre was reluctant to ignite in the rain (BM)

Portrait of Paolo Morigia, c. 1592-95.

By Fede Galizia, c. 1578– c. 1630
(Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, #Milan)

She's made a feature of his spectacles, reflecting the room they are sitting in. Morigia, for his part, is writing a poem about the picture she's painting.

Portrait of the poet Joost van den Vondel (17 Nov 1587 – 5 Feb 1679) in old age.
by Phillips Koninck (5 Nov 1619 – 4 Oct 1688)

Vondel wrote his last play 'Noah' when over eight years old.

(V& A Museum, Pen and brown ink, 17th century)

Country woman, Gesina ter Borch, 1655

(Rijksmuseum)

The Birth of the Dauphin (future Louis XIII) at Fontainebleau, 27 Sept 1601

Peter Paul Rubens.

(Musée du Louvre)

Christ and the Adulteress
ca. 1545–50

Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Cranach died #otd 25 Jan 1586

(Met Museum)