Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory (49 page)

O

Ogle, Utricia
see
Swann, Utricia, Lady

Oldenburg, Henry, 202, 265–6, 268, 274, 282, 289, 297–9, 301–7

Oosterwyck, Severijn, 276, 278

Orange, House of: and English succession, 54, 56, 66–7; control of Netherlands, 64; marriage negotiations with Stuarts, 73–8; art interests and collecting, 113, 125

Orange (southern France), 63, 315

Orléans, Philippe, Duke of, 78

Orléans, Princess Henriette, Duchess of, 78, 132

Orlers, Jan, 129

Orphan Chamber auctions, Amsterdam, 122

Overbury, Sir Thomas, 101

Oxford, 32

P

Palmer, Sir Geoffrey., 282

Pegge, Catherine, 77

Pembroke, Anne, Countess of (
née
Clifford), 218,
220–1

Pembroke, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of, 218–19,
220–1

Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of, 47–8

Pepys, Samuel, 135, 145, 147, 173, 285–7,
287
, 289, 327, 346

Petty, Sir William, 302, 305

Philip I V, King of Spain, 67, 117

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
, 265, 283, 297, 303–5, 307–8

plants (botanical), 247–50, 252

Plein, Het, 157

Poelenburg, Cornelis van, 126

Porter, Endymion, 195

Portland, 1st Earl of
see
Bentinck, Hans Willem

Portugal: expels Dutch traders from Recife, 323

Post, Pieter, 157, 209, 211, 245

Poulle, Magdalena, 246, 249–50, 252

Povey, Samuel, 145

Prince Rupert’s drops, 200–3

Q

Quellinus, Erasmus, 140

R

Ravestijn, Anton van, 132

Ravestijn, Maria van (wife of Adriaen Hanneman), 132

Recife: garden, 252–3

Rembrandt van Rijn, 126–8, 137–8, 143;
Judas Returning the Pieces of Silver
(painting), 127

Rensselaer, Jeremias van, 333

Rensselaer, Kiliaen van, 323–4, 328

Rensselaerswijck (Fort Orange), 323–5, 328

Reynst, Anna, 140

Reynst, Gerrit and Jan, 140

Rhenen (castle), Netherlands, 88

Rhijne, Willem ten, 343–5,
344

Rijswijk, 85, 140

Robinson, Sir John, 286

Rodrigues, Leonor (Duarte), 177

Roe, Sir Thomas, 167

Roemers Visscher, Anna, 149; engraved glasses,
150–1

Rotterdam: art in, 120–1

Rowlett, Thomas, 218

Royal African Company, 327

Royal Exchange, London, 205

Royal Society: Burnet elected a Fellow, 43; and Prince Rupert’s drops, 202; Christiaan Huygens requests copy of Evelyn’s
Sylva
from, 227; activities, 264–5; founded, 273; timekeeping and longitude experiments, 273–4, 279–83, 288, 289–90; and Robert Holmes, 286; reorganisation after William’s arrival in England, 292; and Hooke’s
Micrographia
, 297–9; and Hooke’s lens-making machine, 300; Hooke appointed Curator of Experiments, 301, 313; evacuated from London in plague (1665), 302, 305; elects Christiaan Huygens to overseas membership, 309, 316; Christiaan Huygens attends, 310, 313; receives and translates Busschoff’s book, 343; examines Chinese medical practices, 344–5;
see also Philosophical Transactions

Rubens, Sir Pieter Paul: Amalia von Solms acquires painting, 83; Carleton’s statues offered to, 102–7; house, 103–4, 195; family,
106
; sells works in England, 106–7, 131; Carleton buys paintings from, 108–9; sells Carleton sculptures, 109; wife’s death, 109; self-portrait,
111
; replaces studio paintings for Carleton, 123; Sir Constantijn Huygens praises, 126; van Dyck works for, 130; influence, 193; Sir Constantijn Huygens negotiates with for Frederik Hendrik and Amalia, 207; Huygens sends engravings of The Hague house to, 208;
Alexander Crowning Roxane
(painting), 83,
84
, 110;
Head of Medusa
(painting),
124–5
, 126

Rubenshuis, Antwerp, 103–4,
104
, 193, 195,
196
, 197–8, 200, 203, 207

Rupert, Prince, Count Palatine of Rhine, 203, 285

Russell, Nicasius, 132

Russell, William, Lord, 43

Ruysch, Frederik, 265

Ruysch, Rachel: still-life of flowers,
251

Rye House Plot (1683), 43

S

Saenredam, Pieter,
The Large Organ and Nave of the St Bavokerk, Haarlem, from the Choir
(painting), 140, 142,
143

St Andreas, the Gambia, 327

St James’s Palace, London: gardens, 22–3, 224, 259; guarded by Dutch troops, 23

St James’s Park, London, 22,
24–5

St Kitts, 261

Salisbury cathedral, 50

Sanderson, William, 136

Saturn (planet), 316–17

Schama, Simon, 213

Schurman, Anna Maria van, 149

science: in United Provinces and England, 264–6, 291;
see also
Royal Society

Sehested, Hannibal, 198

Shannon, Elizabeth, Viscountess (
née
Killigrew), 77, 168–72

Shannon, Francis Boyle, 1st Viscount, 169–72

Siebrechts, Jan, 123

Skelton, Bevil, 37

slave trade: African, 327

Sloane, Sir Hans, 315

Solms, Princess Amalia von: marriage to Frederik Hendrik, 67,
68
, 212; tours Netherlands with Princess Mary, 72; and proposed marriage of Charles II, 76; court life and culture, 82–5, 90, 110, 118; art interests and collection, 83, 129, 132; status, 118; Dieussart models statues for, 138; art collection dispersed on death, 147; supports Charles II in United Provinces, 162; and Duarte, 178; and Anne de la Barre, 186–7; and
Ballet de la Carmesse
, 190; and building works, 209; and garden design, 223

Solms, Heinrich Maastricht, Count of, 20–1

Solomon, Temple of: Leon’s model, 356

Somerset, Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of, 312

Somerset, Frances, Countess of, 101

Somerset House, London, 116–17

Somerset, Robert Carr, Earl of, 100–1, 129

Sommelsdijck, Cornelis van Aerssen, Heer van, 271

Sommelsdijck, François van Aerssen, Heer van, 67–9, 212, 228

Sorgvliet, 50, 239, 241, 250, 256

Southwell, Sir Robert, 315

Soutman, Pieter, 90

Spa, Netherlands, 161–2, 175

Spain: Charles I’s relations with, 67, 69; defeats Elector Frederick, 86–7

Sprat, Thomas, 81, 319–20

Stafford, Sir Thomas, 173

Stanhope, Alexander, 145

Stanhope, Katherine Wotton, Lady, 163

States General (Dutch): sanctions and finances invasion of England, 5; Stadholder lacks authority in, 70; Maurits controls, 97; prohibits Princess Mary from offering sanctuary to brothers, 112, 175, 188; bans House of Orange from Stadholdership, 118

Stent, Peter, 219

Stone family, 206

Stone, Henry, 206

Stone, Nicholas, 205–6

Strasbourg: Louis XIV captures, 63

Strickland, Sir Walter, 161

Stuart family: and English succession, 54–5; marriage negotiations with House of Orange, 73–8; court, 82; art interests and collecting, 113, 125; portraits, 116;
see also
individual members

Stuyvesant, Peter (Petrus), 324–5, 330–1, 346

Suasso, Francisco Lopes
see
Lopes Suasso, Francisco

Surinam, 241

Swammerdam, Jan, 264–5

Swann, Utricia, Lady (
née
Ogle), 149, 163–4, 166, 178, 197, 200, 217

Swann, Sir William, 163, 166

Sweerts, Catherina, 152

T

telescopes, 316–18

Temple, Sir William, 217, 227–8, 335–6, 341

Terbrugghen, Hendrik, 126

Terschelling island, 285

Tessers, Hendrik, 123

Thulden, Theodoor van, 90

Thuret, Isaac, 266

timekeeping
see
clocks and watches

Titian:
Pardo Venus
(painting),
114
, 116;
Venus with Organ Player
(painting), 116

Torbay: Dutch fleet arrives in, 10,
12–13
, 15; William in,
28

Torrington, Earl of
see
Herbert, Admiral Arthur

Tromp, Admiral Cornelis Maartenzoon, 162

tulips, 257,
258
, 259–60

U

United Provinces (Dutch Republic): prepares invasion of England, 4–5, 8, 36–7; trade war with France, 33, 39–40, 42; French threat to, 37, 41, 62–3, 353; strategic reasons for invasion, 37–41; financing of William’s invasion, 52; Protestantism, 55–6; Henrietta Maria and Princess Mary in, 72–3; admired in England, 81; courtly life and culture, 82, 85–6, 88, 90–1; art and artists, 89–90, 113–14, 118, 120–39, 142; relations with England, 112, 116, 159, 172, 205–7, 264, 319, 349–50, 357–8; Stadholdership banned to House of Orange, 118; gifts to Charles II on Restoration, 139–40, 142,
143
, 144–5; marriages with English partners, 159–60; exchange of craftsmen and artists with England, 205–6; gardens and garden design, 218, 222–6,
225
, 228, 231–6,
234
,
236
, 239, 241–2, 244–50, 252–3; land reclamation and drainage expertise, 231–3, 235–9; economic prosperity, 239; luxury goods and extravagance, 259–60; campaign against France, 263–4; scientific and medical enterprise, 264–5; overseas competition with England, 319, 326–7, 329–30, 332–3, 340; colonial settlements, 320; national character, 320; financial and banking practices, 338–41, 345, 347; proposes political union with England, 349; economic decline, 357;
see also
Anglo-Dutch wars; States-General; William III (of Orange), King

Uylenburgh, Gerrit van, 137, 140

Uytenbroek, Moses van, 126