Henry Venn
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Henry Venn
by John Russell
pastel, 1787
23 7/8 in. x 17 7/8 in. (607 mm x 453 mm)
Bequeathed by the widow of the sitter's great-great-grandson, Edith Helen Elliott, 1943
Primary Collection
NPG 3161
Sitterback to top
- Henry Venn (1725-1797), Evangelical divine; founder of the Clapham Sect. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Artistback to top
- John Russell (1745-1806), Portrait painter and pastellist. Artist or producer associated with 102 portraits, Sitter associated with 6 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 465
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 632
Events of 1787back to top
Current affairs
Social reformers Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in London with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.George III shows first signs of mental instability in November.
Art and science
Painter Robert Barker takes out a patent on the Panorama..Astronomer William Herschel discovers the two moons of Uranus, Titania and Oberon.
The original Lord's Cricket Ground holds its first cricket match.
International
Captain William Bligh sets sail for Tahiti on The Bounty.First performance of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni at the National Theatre, Prague.
A British ship lands a party of freed slaves as the first modern settlers in Sierra Leone.
Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
Bahamas become a British colony.
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