Felicia Dorothea Hemans

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Felicia Dorothea Hemans

by Angus Fletcher
marble bust, circa 1829
26 in. x 17 3/4 in. (660 mm x 450 mm) overall
Purchased, 1978
Primary Collection
NPG 5198

On display in the Entrance Hall on Floor 0 at the National Portrait Gallery

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  • Angus Fletcher (1799-1862), Artist. Artist or producer of 2 portraits.

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When the bust was nearing completion, Mrs Hemans wrote to her cousin: 'My effigy... is so very graceful that I cannot but accuse the artist of flattery, the only fault he has given me any reason to find.'

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Current affairs

Metropolitan police force of over three thousand paid, uniformed, professional policemen founded by Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel.
Roman Catholic Relief Act grants emancipation; Catholics admitted to vote, sit in parliament and hold almost all public offices.

Art and science

Success of George Stephenson's Rocket steam engine at Rainhill Trials.
First London bus service licensed; the new 'box-on-wheels' contributes greatly to the expansion of the suburbs.
Apsley House completed for the Duke of Wellington by Benjamin Wyatt.
First Oxford and Cambridge boat race.

International

Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.

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