Edmond Halley
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
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
Artistback to top
- Richard Phillips (1681-1741), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 9 portraits.
This portraitback to top
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).
Linked publicationsback to top
- Hackmann, W.D., Apples and Atoms: Portraits of Scientists from Newton to Rutherford, 1986, p. 22
- Hart-Davis, Adam, Chain Reactions, 2000, p. 32
- Kerslake, John, Early Georgian Portraits, 1977, p. 118
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 273
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Science, Religion and Politics: The Royal Society (11 September 2010 - 5 December 2010)
Events of 1722back to top
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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