John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, 1626 - 1697. Lord High Chancellor of Scotland
About this artwork
Tweeddale was a royalist Scottish peer who was also sympathetic to the Covenanting cause. As a result, his periods in office as a Scottish privy councillor, President of the Council and Commissioner of the Treasury, were interrupted by interludes when he was out of favour, and he was once imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle. He became Lord Chancellor of Scotland in 1692 but was dismissed for his support of the Darien Scheme (an attempt to establish a colony on the small strip of land between North and South America). He supported the Glorious Revolution in 1699 and six years later was created Marquess of Tweeddale by William III.
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title:John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, 1626 - 1697. Lord High Chancellor of Scotland
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accession number:PG 2225
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materials:Oil on canvas
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date created:About 1660 - 1665
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measurements:126.30 x 103.50 cm (framed: 136.50 x 113.60 x 4.80 cm)
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credit line:Purchased with assistance from the Art Fund and the Pilgrim Trust 1974
Sir Peter Lely
Sir Peter Lely
Lely was born in Soest, Germany, of Dutch parents. In 1637 he was registered as a pupil of Pieter de Grebber in his father's home town of Haarlem. He came to London in about 1643, and in 1647 painted the children of Charles I, in custody during the Civil…