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John Wilkes
3 of 37 portraits on display in Room 14 at the National Portrait Gallery
John Wilkes
by Unknown artist
silver medal, 1768
2 1/4 in. (57 mm) diameter
Purchased, 1913
Primary Collection
NPG 1702
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- John Wilkes (1725-1797), Politician and agitator. Sitter associated with 47 portraits, Artist associated with 1 portrait.
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Issued following Wilkes's arrest for the publication of edition No.45 of his newspaper, The North Briton, in which Ministers were attacked as 'tools of despotism and corruption'.
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- Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 483
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 662
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