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One of Seven rediscovered Royal Portraits of historic 16thC Renaissance-17thCMonarchs-Anthony van Dyck 1632London"Infant CharlesII as Putto in Prince of Wales Cap"Signed"AVD"Monogramme,Dated 1632,in small scale on"Lip"Original Carolean Frame Among his earliest Royal Commissions👨‍🎨

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2022-05-12

Star charts or astronomical charts mapped the night sky beautifully. The romantic in me always loved the myriad forms of these celestial atlases through global history. Here are just four by: Su Song (11thc), de Wit (17thc), Hevelius (17thc), & Hall (19thc) ✨🌝🪐#WyrdWednesday

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2022-05-04

4 May 1643 Royalist forces commanded by William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, stormed the town of after a skirmish at the town's bridge, defended by local Parliamentarians including 30 boys from the town's grammar school.

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2022-05-04

For the 15th of April, our is
'Crucifixion with Donor', by Jan Cossiers.
Musée de Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose, Lessines.

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2022-04-15

14 April 1655 General Venables landed Protectorate troops west of Santo Domingo, as part of Cromwell's 'Western Design' to seize Spanish Hispaniola (Haiti). The poorly planned and conceived expedition was a disaster, denting the regime's confidence.

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2022-04-14

9 April 1644 Parliamentarian forces under Sir William Waller stormed Winchester. They captured the town but the Royalist garrison held out in the castle.

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2022-04-09

The word parasol comes from the Latin “para,” which means to shield or protect, & “sol” which means sun. Loved for millennia in Persia, Egypt, & China, it arrived in Europe late: the 17thc. Here are some fun prints from the Regency era. By then it was a key accessory 🌸

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2022-04-07

29 March 1644 was the Battle of Cheriton (Alresford) in Hampshire. Sir William Waller's Parliamentarians defeated Royalist forces under the Earl of Forth and Lord Hopton, ending their advance in the south-east.

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2022-03-29

For the 25th of March, our is 'Leda and the Swan', 1598-1602, by Peter Paul Rubens.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge.

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2022-03-26

For the 22nd of March, our is 'Frozen Canal with Skaters and Hockey Players', 1668, by Adriaen van de Velde.
Musée du Louvre, Paris

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2022-03-23

For the 20th of March, our is: 'Music-Making Company on a Terrace', c. 1620, by Dirck Hals.
Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem.

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2022-03-20

Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester
https://t.co/acjqnL1WGn via

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2022-03-09

We're privileged to have the best extant collection of portraits of the women in Oliver Cromwell's life. He and his wife Elizabeth (1598-1655) were married in 1620 and had a devoted relationship judging by their surviving letters. Thread 1/6

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2022-03-08

7 March 1657 At a meeting with senior army officers, Oliver Cromwell made it clear that he was going to abandon the system of the Major-Generals, an experiment in regional government that was deeply unpopular and unsuccessful.

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2022-03-07

St Jerome, patron saint of archaeologists.

Here I’ve drawn him with a globe, compared with the original memento mori. 📍similar to work by Guido Reni

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2022-03-03

Traditionally played on the Rommelpot, which appears in many 17thC Dutch genre paintings, was an earthenware pot with a bladder stretched over it. The friction drum is played by pushing & twirling a thick straw through membrane to create a hollow 'foolish' sound.

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2022-03-02

'A Corner of the Tamar Valley.'  Harold Hitchcock's work falls recognisably into the English romantic tradition of William Blake and Samuel Palmer; sometimes slipping freely between the extremes of the French 17thC classicist Claude Lorraine and a touch of 20thC surrealism.

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2022-03-01

Recently learnt that pestle and mortar was slang for pen!s and v, and I don't know why I didn't already know that! 🍌

Image: Young girl with a pestle and mortar by Gabriel Metsu,

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2022-02-25

For the 25th of February, our is 'The Consequences of War', 1637-38, by Peter Paul Rubens.
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence.

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2022-02-25

24 February 1655 a proclamation was issued banning horse racing for 6 months. The ban was introduced as it was feared Royalist agents were using races as a cover to meet, but was only temporary as Oliver Cromwell was rather fond of horse racing!

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2022-02-24