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EARL OF THOMAS BUTLER OSSORY (1634-1680)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 355 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EARL OF See also:THOMAS See also:BUTLER See also:OSSORY (1634-1680)  , eldest son of See also:James See also:Butler, 1st See also:duke of See also:Ormonde, was See also:born at See also:Kilkenny on the 8th or 9th of See also:July 1634 . His See also:early years were spent in See also:Ireland and See also:France, and he became an accomplished See also:athlete and and four are signed and dated, while seventeen are signed with by no means an indifferent See also:scholar . Having come to See also:London the name but not with the date . in 1652 he was rightly suspected of sympathizing with the See also:Adrian See also:Ostade was the contemporary of See also:David See also:Teniers and exiled royalists, and in 1655 was put into See also:prison by See also:Cromwell; Adrian See also:Brouwer . Like them he spent his See also:life in the delineation after his See also:release about a See also:year later he went to See also:Holland and of the homeliest subjects—See also:tavern scenes, See also:village fairs and See also:country married a Dutch See also:lady of See also:good See also:family, accompanying See also:Charles II. quarters . Between Teniers and Ostade the contrast lies in the to See also:England in 166o . In 1661 Butler became a member of both different See also:condition of the agricultural classes of See also:Brabant and the See also:English and the Irish Houses of See also:Commons, representing Holland, and the See also:atmosphere and dwellings that were See also:peculiar See also:Bristol in the former and See also:Dublin University in the latter See also:House; to each region . Brabant has more See also:sun, more comfort and a and in 1662 was made an Irish peer as See also:earl of See also:Ossory . He held higher type of humanity; Teniers, in consequence, is silvery several military appointments, in 1665 was made See also:lieutenant- and sparkling; the See also:people he paints are See also:fair specimens of a well-See also:general of the See also:army in Ireland, and in 1666 was created an built See also:race . Holland, in the vicinity of See also:Haarlem seems to have English peer as See also:Lord Butler; but almost as soon as he appeared suffered much from See also:war; the See also:air is moist and hazy, and the in the House of Lords he was imprisoned for two days for chal- people, as depicted by Ostade, are See also:short, See also:ill-favoured and marked lenging the duke of See also:Buckingham . In 1665 a fortunate See also:accident with the See also:stamp of adversity on their features and See also:dress . Brouwer, had allowed Ossory to take See also:part in a big See also:naval fight with the who painted the Dutch boor in his frolics and See also:passion, imported Dutch, and in May 1672, being now in command of a See also:ship, he more of the spirit of Frans See also:Hals into his delineations than his fought against the same enemies in Southwold See also:Bay, serving colleague; but the type is the same as Ostade's .

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great distinction on both occasions . The earl was partly first years of his career Ostade displayed the same tendency responsible for this latter struggle, as in See also:March 1672 before war to exaggeration and frolic as his comrade, but he is to be diswas declared he had attacked the Dutch See also:Smyrna See also:fleet, an See also:action tinguished from his See also:rival by a more general use of the principles which he is said to have greatly regretted later in life . Whilst of See also:light and shade, and especially by a greater concentration visiting France in 1672 he rejected the liberal offers made by of light on a small See also:surface in contrast with a broad expanse of See also:Louis XIV. to induce him to enter the service of France, and gloom . The See also:key of his harmonies remains for a See also:time in the returning to England he added to his high reputation by his See also:scale of greys . But his treatment is dry and careful, and in conduct during a See also:sea-fight in See also:August 1673 . The earl was intimate this See also:style he shuns no difficulties of detail, representing cottages with See also:William, See also:prince of See also:Orange, and in 1677 he joined the allied inside and out, with the See also:vine leaves covering the poorness of the army in the See also:Netherlands, commanding the See also:British See also:section and See also:outer walls, and nothing inside to See also:deck the patchwork of rafters winning great fame at the See also:siege of See also:Mons in 1678 . He acted as and See also:thatch, or tumble-down chimneys and See also:ladder staircases, See also:deputy for his See also:father, who was lord-lieutenant of Ireland, and in that make up the sordid interior of the Dutch rustic of those See also:parliament he defended Ormonde's Irish See also:administration with days . The greatness of Ostade lies in the fact that he often great vigour . In 168o he was appointed See also:governor of See also:Tangier, but caught the poetic See also:side of the life of the See also:peasant class, in spite his See also:death on the 3oth of July 168o prevented him from taking up of its ugliness, and stunted See also:form and misshapen features . He his new duties . One of his most intimate See also:friends was See also:John did so by giving their vulgar See also:sports, their quarrels, even their See also:Evelyn, who eulogizes him in his See also:Diary . Ossory had eleven quieter moods of enjoyment, the magic light of the sungleam, See also:children, and his eldest son James became duke of Ormonde in and by clothing the See also:wreck of cottages with See also:gay vegetation .

1688 . See T . See also:

Carte, Life of lames, duke of Ormonde (1851); and J . Evelyn, Diary, edited by W . See also:Bray (189o) .

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