Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory (55 page)

4
On Jews and Jewish practice in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, see the many articles by J.I. Israel, particularly those in
Studia Rosenthaliana
.

5
On the Duarte family and its art collections see Edgar Samuel, ‘The disposal of Diego Duarte’s Stock of Paintings 1692–1697’,
Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kusten-Antwerpen
(1976); ‘Manuel Levy Duarte (1631–1714): An Amsterdam Merchant Jeweller and his Trade with London’,
Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England
XXVII, 11–31. See also G. Dogaer,
Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kusten-Antwerpen
(1971), for the 1683 inventory of the Duarte picture collection.

6
See entry for Gaspar Duarte on the website of the Joods Historische Museum of Amsterdam: http://www.jhm.nl/.

7
‘Anvers, ce 24e de Mars 1641’. Gaspar Duarte to Huygens. Worp, letter 2677.

8
J. Duarte to Huygens, 7 April 1641. Worp, letter 2686.

9
G.F. Duarte to Huygens, 21 April 1641. Worp, letter 2677.

10
G.F. Duarte to Huygens, 9 May 1641. Worp, letter 2703.

11
I owe this connection to Nadine Akkerman, who is editing the letters of Elizabeth of Bohemia, for whom Wicquefort also worked.

12
£9 sterling = 100 Dutch guilders.

13
See Marika Keblusek, ‘Mary, princess royal (1631–1660)’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com.catalogue.ulrls. lon.ac.uk:80/view/article/18252, accessed 9 April 2007].

14
See below,
Chapter 8
.

15
See G. Dogaer, ‘De inventaris der schilderijen van Diego Duarte’,
Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor schone Kunsten Antwerpen
(1971), 195–221; 203.

16
21 July 1648. Worp, letter 4845. On Huygens and the de Barres, see J. Tiersot, ‘Une famille de musiciens français au XVIIe siècle les de Barre. III. Les enfants de Pierre. Anne de la Barre. chez Huygens’,
Revue de musicologie
9 (1928), 1–11; 7.

17
31 July 1648. Worp, letter 4850.

18
Tiersot, ‘Une famille de musiciens français’, pp.7–9 (not in Worp).

19
30 January 1653. Worp, letter 5271.

20
C. Huygens, ‘Dessein de l’entrée du ballet presenté à la reine de Boheme à la Haye’, in Huygens,
Otiorum libri sex
(The Hague, 1625), pp.49–54.

21
Cit. M. Keblusek, ‘“A divertissiment of little plays”: Theater aan de Haagse hoven van Elizabeth van Bohemen en Mary Stuart’, in J. de Jongste, J. Roding and B. Thijs (eds),
Vermaak van de elite in de vroegmoderne tijd
(Hilversum: Verloren, 1999), pp.190–202; 198.

22
N.N.W. Akkerman and P.R. Sellin, ‘A Stuart Masque in Holland, Ballet de la Carmesse de La Haye (1655)’, Parts 1 and 2,
Ben Jonson Journal
11 (2004), 207–58; 227 and 12 (2005), 141–64.

23
Ibid., Part 1, p.227.

24
Ibid., p.228.

25
Ibid., p.229.

26
Ibid., p.231.

27
On such entertainments see M. Keblusek, ‘“A divertissment of little plays”: Theater aan de Haagse hoven van Elizabeth van Bohemen en Mary Stuart’, in J.A.F. de Jongste et al.,
Vermaak van de Elite in de Vroegmoderne Tijd
(Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 1999).

28
See N.N.W. Akkerman,
The Letters of the Queen of Bohemia
(unpublished dissertation, Free University of Amsterdam, 2008).

29
Akkerman and Sellin, ‘A Stuart Masque in Holland’, Part 2, 158.

30
Ibid., pp.142–3.

31
For Huygens’s musical dealings with Brussels, see R. Rasch, ‘Constantijn Huygens in Brussel op bezoek bij Leopold Wilhelm van Oostenrijk 1648–1656’,
Revue belge de Musicologie
/
Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap
55, ‘six siècles de vie musicale à Bruxelles/Zes eeuwen muziekleven te Brussel’ (2001), 127–46.

32
See Lynn Hulse, ‘Cavendish, William, first Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne (bap. 1593, d. 1676)’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com.catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk:80/view/article/4946, accessed 9 April 2007].

33
See above,
Chapter 4
.

34
In October 1648 Frederik Nassau-Zuijlenstein (natural son of Frederik Hendrik) married Mary Killigrew, lady-in-waiting to Mary Stuart, at The Hague, and there was a large gathering of English nobility.

35
K. Whitaker,
Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic
(London: Chatto & Windus, 2003), p.113.

36
On Bolsover see T. Mowl,
Architecture Without Kings: The Rise of Puritan Classicism under Cromwell
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995), pp.167–9. See also T. Raylor, ‘“Pleasure reconciled to virtue”: William Cavendish, Ben Jonson, and the decorative scheme at Bolsover Castle’,
Renaissance Quarterly
52 (1999), 402–39.

37
L. Worsley, U. Härting and M. Keblusek, ‘Horsemanship’, in Beneden and de Poorter,
Royalist Refugees
, pp.37–54.

38
J. Knowles, ‘“We’ve lost, should we lose too our harmless mirth?” Cavendish’s Antwerp Entertainments’, in ibid., pp.70–7.

39
On Lanier’s career in the household of Charles I see J. Brotton,
The Sale of the Late King’s Goods
(London: Macmillan, 2006).

40
Knowles, ‘We’ve lost, should we lose too our harmless mirth?’, p.77.

41
5/15 September 1653.

42
Huygens to Margaret Cavendish, 9/19 September 1671. On this exchange of letters see now N.N.W. Akkerman and Marguérite Corporaal, ‘Mad Science Beyond Flattery: The Correspondence of Margaret Cavendish and Constantijn Huygens’,
Early Modern Literary Studies
Special Issue 14 (May, 2004), 2.1–21 [http://purl.oclc.org/emls/si-14/akkecorp.html].

43
Huygens included some poems in English (now lost).

44
Antwerp, 20 March 1657.

45
27 March 1657.

46
30 March 1657.

47
L. Brodsley, C. Frank and J.W. Steeds, ‘Prince Rupert’s drops’,
Notes and Records of the Royal Society
41 (1986), 1–26.

48
This report was published by Christopher Merrett as an appendix to his translation of Antonio Neri’s
Art of Glass
(1662), pp.353–62.

49
R. Hooke, ‘Observatiion vii. Of some Phaenomena of Glass Drops’,
Micrographia or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses with Observation and Inquiries thereupon
(London, 1665), pp.33–44.

8: Masters of All They Survey

1
For a vivid sense of the new consumer culture getting under way in the course of the seventeenth century, see J. Styles and A. Vickery (eds),
Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830
(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006).

2
See H.J. Louw, ‘Anglo–Netherlandish architectural interchange c.1600–c.1660’,
Architectural History
24 (1981), 1–23.

3
See PRO, WORK 5/2; D. Knoop and G.P. Jones,
The London Mason in the Seventeenth Century
(1935), 71; H. Colvin,
A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840
, 3rd edn (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995), p.299.

4
K. Ottenheym, ‘“Possessed by such a passion for building”, Frederik Hendrik and architecture’, in Keblusek and Zijlmans,
Princely Display
, pp.105–25; p.110.

5
‘[13?] November 1635’. Worp, letter 1301.

6
‘Au camp soubs Philippine, le 2e de Juillet 1639’ (Worp, letter 2149), and 14 November 1639 (Worp, letter 2272).

7
See K.A Ottenheym, ‘De correspondentie tussen Rubens en Huygens over architectuur (1635–40)’,
Bulletin Koninklijke Nederlandse Oudheidkundige Bond
1997, pp.1–11.

8
Utricia Swann sang at Hofwijk in 1642, and Huygens wrote a poem of lavish praise of her singing, which put the nightingale to shame. T. van Strien and K. van der Leer,
Hofwijk: Het gedicht en de buitenplaats van Constantijn Huygens
(Zutphen: Walborg Pers, 2002), pp.82–3.

9
See Koen Ottenheym, ‘“Possessed by such a passion for building”: Frederik Hendrik and Architecture’, in Keblusek and Zijlmans,
Princely Display
, pp.105–25.

10
Ibid., pp.121–5. See also J. Adamson (ed.),
The Princely Courts of Europe 1500–1750
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999), p.130.