Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Sitterback to top

• Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817), Writer and inventor. Sitter in 2 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Horace Hone (1754-1825), Miniature painter; son of Nathaniel Hone. Artist associated with 8 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

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Educationalist and father of the novelist Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth's Protestant Anglo-Irish family owned an estate confiscated from Irish Catholics by James I. During the Rebellion of 1798, the Edgeworth estate workers rose against their landlord but were suppressed after a bitter struggle. As an Irish MP, Edgeworth campaigned for government control of popular education and between 1806 and 1811 was one of the commissioners appointed by the British government to enquire into public education in Ireland.

Linked publicationsback to top

• Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 153
• Rogers, Malcolm, Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, 1993 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 August to 23 October 1994), p. 51
• Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 193
• Walker, Richard, Miniatures: 300 Years of the English Miniature, 1998, p. 83

Subjects & Themesback to top

• Miniatures
• On display at the Gallery
• Regency Ireland