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Thomas Paine (1737-1809), Author of 'The Rights of Man'

Sitter in 11 portraits
Radical political journalist and supporter of the revolutions in America and France. Paine emigrated to America in 1774 and published Common Sense, a demand for American independence. He returned to Europe, 1787, and in response to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, published his most famous work, The Rights of Man, 1791-2, which advocated the constitutional guarantee of the civil rights of individuals.

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6805Thomas Paine
by Laurent Dabos
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897Thomas Paine
copy by Auguste Millière, after an engraving by William Sharp, after George Romney
NPG 897
D12254'The repeal of the test act a vision'
by James Sayers, published by Thomas Cornell
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D12420Thomas Paine
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
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D9890Thomas Paine ('Loyalty against levelling')
by James Sayers, published by Thomas Cornell
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D12464'Tom Paine's nightly pest' (Charles James Fox; Thomas Paine; Joseph Priestley)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
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D1364Thomas Paine
by William Sharp, after George Romney
NPG D1364
D15322Thomas Paine
by and published by William Sharp, after George Romney
NPG D15322
D13093'New morality; - or - the promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Theophilanthropes, with the homage of Leviathan and his suite'
by James Gillray, published by John Wright
NPG D13093
D13094'New morality; - or - the promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Theophilanthropes, with the homage of Leviathan and his suite'
by James Gillray, published by John Wright
NPG D13094
D5455Thomas Paine
by James Godby, after Unknown artist
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