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Pair of Lovers in a Formal Garden,
Gesina ter Borch, 18 June 1658
(Rijksmuseum)
Worship of the Golden Calf
Pieter Pourbus, 1550s.
(National Gallery of Ireland)
Jacobus Vrel,
Young Woman in an Interior, c. 1660
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
28 May 1626: d. Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk at home in Charing Cross #otd He'd been Lord Treasurer & Lord Chamberlain, Chancellor of Cambridge whose political career was badly damaged by his daughter Frances Countess of Somerset's implication in the Overbury affair (Weiss)
A Wedding Feast, traditionally called 'The Wedding of Adriaen Ploos van Amstel and Agnes van Bijler', 1616, Willem Cornelisz. Duyster, c. 1625
(Rijksmuseum)
28 May 1586: John Darrell performs his first exorcism - that of Thomas Darling, an adolescent demoniac of Burton upon Trent #otd (eebo, a pamphlet defending a later case/ Rijksmuseum) Darrell was eventually condemned as a fraud.
28 May 1672: d. Edward Montagu, ambassador, admiral & cousin of Samuel Pepys at the Battle of Solebay #otd
Roger Knight, Mayor of #Reading in 1615 & 1623 (Reading Museum & Town Hall)
26 May 1583: Baptism of Susanna, the daughter of William #Shakespeare & Anne Hathaway #otd (BM)