Probably William Kent
3 of 8 portraits of William Kent
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Probably William Kent
by Bartholomew Dandridge
oil on canvas, circa 1736
35 in. x 28 1/4 in. (889 mm x 718 mm)
Purchased, 1909
Primary Collection
NPG 1557
Sitterback to top
- William Kent (1685?-1748), Architect, painter and landscape gardener. Sitter associated with 8 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 5 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Bartholomew Dandridge (1691-circa 1754), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 36 portraits.
This portraitback to top
This signed portrait by Bartholomew Dandridge is the smaller of two versions. It is thought to represent the architect and landscape gardener, William Kent, on the basis of likeness and the depiction of book, plan and monument in the other version (not National Portrait Gallery). 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
- Kerslake, John, Early Georgian Portraits, 1977, p. 161
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 351
Events of 1736back to top
Current affairs
Frederick, Prince of Wales marries Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.Porteous Riots in Edinburgh after the execution of smuggler Andrew Wilson. Captain John Porteous orders his men to fire into the mob, causing six deaths. He is found guilty of murder, dragged from his cell, beaten and hung to death by a mob.
Repeal of laws against witchcraft.
Gin Act attempts to curtail consumption of gin.
Art and science
Posthumous publication of Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions, describing his method of differential calculus.One of the earliest recorded uses of a Bathing Machine at Scarborough.
International
Methodist preachers John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia.Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates the throne.
Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler produces the first published proof of Fermat's little theorem concerning prime numbers.
Charles Marie de La Condamine and François Fresneau Gataudière make the first scientific observations of rubber in Ecuador.
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