#NewEntries Born c1516, Jane Nugent was abducted and married at the age of just 11. When her husband's involvement in the Desmond & Baltinglass rebellions forced him into exile, she was imprisoned for treason ostensibly for sending him shirts. dib.ie/biography/nuge… #DIBLives

Friday 17 May Dublin

Jan van Goyen Path through the Dunes, 1629

(Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)

Dish depicting a bird on a branch on a blue ground, Netherlands, 1600-50 (V&A Museum, London)

Saints of 15, 16, 17, 18 May
(French calendar, 17th century, British Museum)

St Dymphna
St Peregrinus of Auxerre
St Restituta of Carthage
St Dioscorus

Flower pyramid vase c. 1692 - these high vases which could be loaded up with flowers came into fashion at the court of William III & Mary (Rijksmuseum)

16 May 1008: Archbishop Wulfstan produces the first law Code of Æthelred the Unready #otd

16 May 1392: d. Alexander Neville, exile Archbishop of #York as a parish priest in Louvain #otd (BM)

Antoine Perrenot de Granvella

Anthonis Mor, 1549

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

The Baker Sounding His Horn c. 1648 by Adriaen van Ostade #Dutch , 1610-1685

(Art Institute Chicago)

16 May 1649: William Chappell, Dean of #Cashel , Provost of Trinity College #Dublin , Church of #Ireland Bishop of #Cork & Ross, one time tutor to #poet John Milton at Christ's College #Cambridge is buried #otd (Jennifer Payne)

16 May 1633: Thomas Everard #English #Jesuit translator of many devotional texts, d. #London #otd

16 May 1594: Sir William Russell appointed Lord Deputy of #Ireland #otd - but did he bring the lion-dog with him?

16 May 1568: Mary Queen of #Scots crosses Solway Firth to #England in fishing boat #otd

The beginning of the end for her... (BM)

Portrait of the tailor Lucas Gutmann, 1614. (British Museum)

Painting, Fan-leaf interior of an imaginary shop dealing in Chinese export goods, possibly Dutch School, ca. 1680-1700 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

Allegory in Honor of Cardinal Antonio Barberini the Younger, 1607-1671) by Pietro da Cortona, 1596–1669 (Met Museum)

Understated praise didn't come into the equation. The artist died #otd 16 May 1669

Jacob van Hulsdonck

Roses in a Glass Vase c. 1640-1645.

(Mauritshuis, The Hague)

Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 173, fol. 119v from a 15thC German manuscript of the Life of St Brendan.

Brendan kneels before an abbot, who holds a book.

Today, 16 May, is his feast day.

(Bodleian Library Oxford)

Portrait of a Man c. 1628

Jacques Saillant

(Met Museum)