Edmond Halley

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Edmond Halley

by Richard Phillips
oil on canvas, feigned oval, before 1722
29 1/2 in. x 24 1/2 in. (749 mm x 622 mm)
Purchased, 1964
Primary Collection
NPG 4393

On display in Room 9 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery

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  • Richard Phillips (1681-1741), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 9 portraits.

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The design of this somewhat stiffly painted portrait corresponds with the engraving by George Vertue published without date or source but entered under the year 1721 in his manuscript list of engravings. More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian Portraits (1977, out of print).

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Current affairs

Atterbury Plot discovered; Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester is accused of promoting the Jacobite rising. Other leading Jacobite sympathisers are also arrested and Atterbury is banished the following year.
General Election is won by the Whigs.

Art and science

Daniel Defoe publishes his novel Moll Flanders which traces the redemption of Moll, a penitent prostitute, thief and American convict.
Writer and politician Richard Steele premieres his play The Conscious Lovers at the Drury Lane Theatre, London to great acclaim.

International

In sweeping reforms aimed at modernising Russia, Peter the Great introduces the Table of Ranks; a new meritocratic order of precedence which aims to break the power of the hereditary nobility.
Dutch discover Easter Island, beginning a spate of European discovery in the islands of the Pacific.
Iroquois League of Native Americans becomes known as the Six Nations, after the Tuscarora join the group.


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