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| c. 650 |
| | | The Book of Durrow, one of the earliest of the great Celtic manuscripts, is written and illuminated in Ireland | |
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| c. 698 |
| | | The Lindisfarne Gospels are written and illuminated by Celtic monks on the Scottish island of Lindisfarne | |
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| c. 1397 |
| | | The English king, Richard II, commissions a diptych (the Wilton Diptych) showing himself being presented to the Virgin and Child | |
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| 1526 |
| | | Hans Holbein the Younger pays his first visit to England, and stays with Thomas More in Chelsea | |
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| c. 1585 |
| | | The English artist John White paints the everyday life of the Secotan Indians of America | |
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| 1587 |
| | | Nicholas Hilliard paints the delightful miniature known simply as Young Man among Roses | |
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| 1632 |
| | | Van Dyck moves to London and becomes portrait painter to the British court and aristocracy | |
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| 1636 |
| | | A painted ceiling by Rubens, celebrating the Stuart dynasty, is installed in the Banqueting House in Whitehall | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | Canaletto begins to specialize in views of the Venetian canals, finding his main customers among the British | |
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| 1757 |
| | | English painter Joseph Wright sets up a studio in his home town, Derby | |
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