Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave
by Unknown artist, formerly attributed to Johan Joseph Zoffany
oil on canvas, circa 1775
49 in. x 39 1/4 in. (1245 mm x 997 mm)
Purchased, 1897
Primary Collection
NPG 1094
Sitterback to top
- Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (1744-1792), Naval commander. Sitter in 8 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Unknown artist, Artist. Artist or producer associated with 6578 portraits.
- Johan Joseph Zoffany (1733-1810), Painter of portraits and conversation pieces. Artist or producer associated with 50 portraits, Sitter associated with 11 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Mulgrave was a naval officer who, in 1773, commanded a voyage to discover a route through the Arctic to the Pacific. Posed with an ice-spear, as the men in the background haul a ship across the ice, this portrait records their struggle with the ice flows around the North Pole.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 352
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 447
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1775back to top
Current affairs
Act of Parliament extends inventor James Watt's patent (first granted in 1769) and the first steam engines are built under it.First known building society - Ketley's Building Society - is established in Birmingham by Richard Ketley, landlord of the Golden Cross Inn.
Art and science
First performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The Rivals at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.Artist J.M.W. Turner is born.
Satirist James Gillray's first engravings and etchings are published.
Navigator Captain Cook publishes his discovery of a preventive cure against scurvy, in the form of a regular ration of lemon juice.
International
War of American Independence begins with British defeat at Lexington and Concord and lasts until 1783. British achieve a narrow and costly victory over the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Edmund Burke delivers a speech to the British Parliament on conciliation with the American colonies.First performance of Pierre Beaumarchais' comic opera The Barber of Seville in Paris.
Pope Pius VI succeeds Pope Clement XIV as the 251st pope.
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