John Saunders(?)
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
John Saunders(?)
by John Saunders(?)
pastel, 1732?
18 1/8 in. x 14 in. (460 mm x 356 mm)
Purchased, 1943
Primary Collection
NPG 3135
Sitterback to top
- John Saunders(?) (circa 1682?-1747 or after?), Pastel painter. Sitter in 1 portrait, Artist or producer of 1 portrait.
Artistback to top
- John Saunders(?) (circa 1682?-1747 or after?), Pastel painter. Artist or producer of 1 portrait, Sitter in 1 portrait.
This portraitback to top
This self-portrait, which was probably intended to boost Saunders' business, is inscribed 'Saunders Ipse Pinxit. Aetatis 50/ November the First Anno 1732. ' The Latin inscription presents his authorship of this self-portrait in self-aggrandizing terms. 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. 242
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 549
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1732back to top
Current affairs
Secession Church formed in Scotland.Widespread fraud and abuses in the customs service revealed. Prime Minister Robert Walpole responds with the Excise scheme, under which the tariff on wine and tobacco is to be replaced by an excise tax.
British Hat Act limits manufacturing in the British colonies, forcing colonists to buy imported British-made goods.
Art and science
Frederick, Prince of Wales attends a fancy-dress ball at Vauxhall Gardens, initiating its supremacy as London's most fashionable meeting place.William Hogarth produces the first prints of A Harlot's Progress, having completed the painted series the previous year.
The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) opens.
International
Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn is born.Georgia in the American colonies is granted to a group of British philanthropists, to give debtors a new start in life.
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