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Design by Inigo Jones for a procession in The Masque of Augures
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Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Jonson, Ben
Ben Jonson
English writer
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Inigo Jones
English architect and artist
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Sir William Davenant
English writer
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William Boyce
British composer
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Samuel Daniel
British author
Blow, John
John Blow
English musician
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Thomas Heywood
English actor and playwright
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Conradus Celtis
German scholar
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James Thomson
Scottish poet [1700–1748]
English playwright and poet
James Shirley
English playwright
MacKaye, Percy
Percy MacKaye
American writer
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John Christopher Pepusch
German composer
Matthew Locke, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
Matthew Locke
British composer
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William Cornysh
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John Day
English dramatist
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William Lawes
English composer
Henry Lawes, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, Oxford
Henry Lawes
English composer
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Nicholas Lanier
English composer
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Alfonso Ferrabosco, II
English composer