John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane
by Sir George Hayter
oil on millboard, 1834
21 1/4 in. x 10 3/8 in. (540 mm x 263 mm)
Given by Queen Mary, 1931
Primary Collection
NPG 2510
Sitterback to top
- John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane (1796-1862), Politician; MP for Perthshire and Okehampton and Lord Chamberlain of the Household. Sitter in 3 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Sir George Hayter (1792-1871), Portrait and history painter; son of Charles Hayter. Artist or producer associated with 198 portraits, Sitter associated with 16 portraits.
This portraitback to top
It is Breadalbane who addresses the House of Commons from the Whig back benches in the finished painting. Hayter has used his red uniform to pick him out from the mass of seated figures in black and dark colours. Breadalbane was a Member of Parliament from 1820-5 and again from 1832 until he succeeded as marquess in 1834.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ormond, Richard, Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, p. 51
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 75
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- The House of Lords and the House of Commons (1 July 2000 - 1 January 2001)
Events of 1834back to top
Current affairs
Sir Robert Peel, Tory, replaces Whig Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister, promising measured reform in a shift from reactionary 'Tory' to more measured 'Conservative' politics (he had voted for the 1832 Reform Act).Trial of Tolpuddle Martyrs, six labourers transported to Australia after trying to raise funds for workers in need by forming a Friendly Society.
Art and science
Charles Babbage's invents the Analytic Machine. Considered to be the forerunner to the modern computer, the machine was able to make automatic mathematical calculations.Edward Bulwer-Lytton publishes his hugely popular, but now largely neglected, novel Last Days of Pompeii, set in the Italian city at the time of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79AD.
International
Dom Miguel I, King of Portugal, is defeated by his brother Pedro IV, in the Portuguese civil war.Slavery is abolished in the British dominions, although slaves still working are indentured to their former owners in an 'apprenticeship' system; the philanthropist Joseph Sturge was a prominent critic of the policy, which was abolished in 1838. Whilst slave owners received compensation, slaves received nothing.
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