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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

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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

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Quellinus, Erasmus, 140

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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

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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