* 1653: Portrait of a Woman-Museum Bredius, The Hague ;

Portrait of the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain | Infanta Maria Theresa by Velázquez, 1653.

Norwich City library was established in 1608 ( six years after Thomas Bodley founded the Bodleian Library, which was open to the " whole republic of the learned " and 145 years before the foundation of the British Museum ), and Chetham's Library in Manchester, which claims to be the oldest public library in the English-speaking world, opened in 1653.

The astrologer John Partridge recorded the exact time and date of his birth as being at noon on 10 March 1653, and this is the date used by the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the local historical accounts of Joseph Nightingale published in 1818.

Medal, 1653, Thomas Simon V & A Museum no.

* 1653: The Philosopher-National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC ;

* 1653: The Physician ( Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand )

* 1653 – New Amsterdam ( later renamed The City of New York ) is incorporated.

A new plan of municipal government was arranged in the Netherlands, and the name " New Amsterdam " was officially declared on 2 February 1653.

In 1653, a convention of two deputies from each village in New Netherland demanded reforms, and Stuyvesant commanded that assembly to disperse, saying: " We derive our authority from God and the company, not from a few ignorant subjects.

Under Johan Björnsson Printz, governor from 1643 to 1653, the company expanded along the river from Fort Christina, establishing Fort Nya Elfsborg on the east bank of the Delaware near present-day Salem, New Jersey and Fort Nya Gothenborg on Tinicum Island ( to the immediate southwest of today's Philadelphia ), where he also built his manor house, The Printzhof.

In the Treaty of Hartford, the border of New Netherland was retracted to western Connecticut and by 1653, the English had overtaken the Dutch trading post.

Beginning in 1653, a " New Navy " was constructed, a core of sixty new, heavier ships with professional captains.

The area was first settled in the late 1653 by a group from New Sweden. The Township was founded during a split from Darby Township on August 30, 1736.

In 1653 a peace invitation was extended by the Onondaga Nation to New France and an expedition of Jesuits, led by Simon Le Moyne, established Sainte Marie de Ganentaa in 1656.

The naval Battle of the Gabbard, also known as the Battle of Gabbard Bank, the Battle of the North Foreland or the second Battle of Nieuwpoort took place on 2 – 3 June 1653 according to the Old Style of Julian calendar then used in England ( 12 – 13 June 1653 New Style ) during the First Anglo-Dutch War near the Gabbard shoal off the coast of Suffolk, England between fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces.

The fleets met again on 31 July 1653 ( 8 August 1653 New Style ) at the Battle of Scheveningen.

In 1653 another collection was published by Humphrey Moseley and Humphrey Robinson ; titled Six New Plays, the volume included The Brothers, The Sisters, The Doubtful Heir, The Imposture, The Cardinal, and The Court Secret.

Two survive in Australia 1653 ( Hobart — on display ), 1694 ( Belgrave — under restoration ) at the Puffing Billy Railway, and several in New Zealand.

Although the Lost Colony on Roanoke Island was the first English attempt at settlement in the Carolina territory, the first permanent English settlement was not established until 1653, when emigrants from the Virginia Colony, with others from New England and Bermuda, settled at the mouths of the Chowan and Roanoke Rivers, on the shores of Albemarle Sound, in the northeastern corner of present-day North Carolina.

Two important collections of Brome's works appeared in 1653 and 1659 — both, confusingly, titled Five New Plays.

The New Haven Colony petitioned the Commonwealth government of Oliver Cromwell for assistance against the Dutch threat, a position supported by Leverett, who went to England with Sedgwick in 1653 to press the colonial case for war.

) These recruits arrived on 16 November 1653 and essentially guaranteed the evolution of Ville Marie and of all New France.

An unpretentious mansion was built nearby by Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar ( 1653 – 1712 ), and was known as New Bothwell Castle, but suffered mining subsidence and was demolished in 1926.

Gridley is directly descended from Thomas Gridley ( 1612 – 1653 ), who emigrated from England to the New England area in 1633.

It is generally believed that the city of Albuquerque was named in honor of Don Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, viceroy of New Spain from 1653 to 1660.

They were finally defeated by the English Parliament's New Model Army from 1649 through to 1653 and land ownership in Ireland passed largely to Protestant settlers.

The 1653 edition, published by Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring, contains A Mad Couple Well-Match'd, The Novella, The Court Beggar, The City Wit, and The Demoiselle.

Sakam Tower (), formerly Fort Provintia, in West Central District, Tainan City was built in 1653 by the Dutch during their colonization of Taiwan.

He was re-elected MP for City of London for the Long Parliament in November 1640 and sat until 1653.

From 1650 he was the sole representative of the City of London in the Rump Parliament until it was forcibly ejected by Oliver Cromwell on 30 April 1653.

He held many college offices, becoming successively lecturer in Greek ( 1651 ), mathematics ( 1653 ), and humanity ( 1655 ), praelector ( 1657 ), junior dean ( 1657 ), and college steward ( 1659 and 1660 ); and according to the habit of the time, he was accustomed to preach in his college chapel and also at Great St Mary's, long before he took holy orders on 23 December 1660.

During the first war of the Fronde ( 1648 – 1649 ), he assisted Condé in the brief siege of Paris ( January 1649 ); and in the second war of the Fronde ( 1650 – 1653 ), remaining loyal to the queen regent Anne of Austria and the court party, he won his greatest triumph in defeating Turenne and the allied Spaniards and rebels at Retbel ( or Blanc-Champ ) in 1650.

* Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon ( 20 September 1652, Bordeaux-11 April 1653, Bordeaux ); died in infancy ;

c. 1630 ); Piaras Feiritéar ( 1600 ?– 1653 ); William Connellan ( fl.

There is a certain charm, too, in the comedies of Claude's disciple, Gaspard Zerbin ( La Perlo deys niusos et coumedies prouvensalos, 1655 ); and those critics who have read the plays of Jean de Cabanes ( 1653 – 1712 ) and of Seguin ( of Tarascon, c. 1640 ), still in MS., speak highly of them.

* Heaven's Glory, Hell's Terror ( 350 pp., 1653 );

* Corpus Theologicum, seu Loci Communes Theologici ( Geneva, 1653 );

His defence of general redemption, Ἀπολύτρωσις ἀπολύτρωσεως, or Redemption Redeemed, appeared in 1651 ( reprinted 1840 ); his ' Water-Dipping no Firm Footing ' ( 1653 ) and ' Cata-Baptism ' ( 1655 ) were polemics against baptists.

) Adriaan Pauw ( 1585 – 1653 ); staatsman en ambachtsheer.

File: David-Portrait of Monsieur Lavoisier and His Wife. jpg | Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife ( 1788 ), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

In 2009, the Portrait of a Man in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which had long been associated with the followers of Velázquez ' style of painting, was cleaned and restored.

Portrait of Jo ( La belle Irlandaise ), 1865-1866, Metropolitan Museum of Art, a painting of Joanna Hiffernan, the probable model for L ' Origine du monde and for Sleep.

In addition to the ceiling creations and wall paintings, Veronese also produced altarpieces ( The Consecration of Saint Nicholas, 1561 – 2, London's National Gallery ), paintings on mythological subjects ( Venus and Mars, 1578, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art ), and portraits ( Portrait of a Lady, 1555, Louvre ).

His work can be found today at art museums across the United States and the United Kingdom, most notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Frick Collection in New York City, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., the National Portrait Gallery in London, Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Stuart's works can be found today at art museums and private collections throughout the United States and Great Britain, including the University Club in New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

The Petrus Christus panel of 1449 illustrating this article, since the removal of its overpainted halo in 1993, is now recognized in the Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as the Vocational Portrait of a Goldsmith, and not as a depiction of Eligius.

Image: FemalePortrait ca1835 byAlvanClark MetropolitanMuseumOfArt. png | Portrait of an unidentified woman, ca. 1835 ( Metropolitan Museum of Art )

Many students of the Courtauld have gone on to become directors of major museums, including John Hayes ( National Portrait Gallery, 1974 – 94 ), Anne d ' Harnoncourt ( Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982 – 2008 ), Neil MacGregor ( National Gallery, 1987 – 2002 ; British Museum 2002 –), Sir Nicholas Serota ( Tate, 1988 –), Sir Mark Jones ( Victoria and Albert Museum, 2001 –), Nicholas Penny ( National Gallery, 2008 –), Kaywin Feldman ( Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2008 -), David Franklin ( Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010 -) and Thomas P. Campbell ( Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009 –).

Portrait of Anne attributed to Corneille de Lyon ( Metropolitan Museum of Art )

* Portrait of the duchesse d ' Étampes, attributed to Corneille de Lyon ( Metropolitan Museum of Art )

Portrait of Gertrude Stein by Pablo Picasso inside Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

File: Thomas Sully-Portrait of the Artist. jpg | Portrait of the Artist, 1821, Metropolitan Museum of Art

* Portrait, Metropolitan Museum

Self Portrait, circa 1910, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Her paintings grace the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum of American Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Portrait Gallery, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Palace in Haiti, and the National Museum of Afro-American Artists and many others.

As Portrait of Jennie was a fantasy, Selznick insisted on filming on actual Massachusetts ( The Graves Light ) and New York City locations ( Central Park, The Cloisters, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art ) as opposed to studio sets, which dramatically increased the film's production costs.

Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps-Stokes painted in 1897 by John Singer Sargent, now hanging at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.

These are: the Portrait of Edward Grymeston ( on loan to the National Gallery, London, 1446 ), the Portrait of a Carthusian ( Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1446 ), the so-called St. Eligius in His Shop ( Metropolitan Museum of Art Lehman Collection, New York, 1449 ), the Virgin Nursing the Child ( now in the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1449 ), the so-called " Berlin Altar Wings " with the Annunciation, Nativity, and Last Judgment ( Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1452 ), and the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Jerome and Francis ( Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1457 ?-- the digits are not clear ).

There is still some confusion about two paintings by Metsu — the Portrait of the family Hinlopen, now in the Gemäldegalerie, which for a few decades was referred to as The Family of burgomaster Gillis Valckenier, and Visit to the Nursery — in the Metropolitan Museum.