Henry Angelo

Sitterback to top

• Henry Angelo (1756-1835), Fencing master. Sitter in 2 portraits, Artist associated with 1 portrait.

Artistback to top

• Mather Brown (1761-1831), Portrait and history painter. Artist associated with 28 portraits.

This portraitback to top

The son of the famous Italian swordmaster, Domenico Tremonando, Henry Angelo inherited his father's Fencing Academy in Bond Street, London in 1785. It was there, in an atmosphere somewhere between that of a private club and a gymnasium, that many of the famous names of the period, including Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Lord Byron practised in the shooting gallery and took lessons in fencing and boxing. The 'Bond Street Academy' provided the perfect meeting place for the aristocracy and the London underworld and was often implicated in contemporary gossip and scandal.

Linked publicationsback to top

• Holmes, Richard; Crane, David; Woof, Robert; Hebron, Stephen, Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, 2002, p. 127
• Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 13
• Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 13

Subjects & Themesback to top

• Gloves and gauntlets
• Regency Popular Culture
• Sports and leisure pursuits
• Swords and shields