Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland
1 portrait by E. & S. Harding
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland
by Ignatius Joseph van den Berghe, published by E. & S. Harding, after Silvester (Sylvester) Harding
stipple engraving, published 1793
12 3/8 in. x 9 1/4 in. (315 mm x 236 mm) plate size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D30503
Sitterback to top
- Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709), Mistress of Charles II. Sitter in 35 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- E. & S. Harding (active 1786-before 1798), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 96 portraits.
- Silvester (Sylvester) Harding (1745-1809), Artist; publisher. Artist or producer associated with 221 portraits.
- Ignatius Joseph van den Berghe (1752-1824), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 21 portraits.
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Events of 1793back to top
Current affairs
Whig MP Charles Grey enters a motion for parliamentary reform but is defeated in the House of Commons.Art and science
Radical philosopher William Godwin publishes Political Justice, an inflamatory document that promoted rational anarchism. This crystallised a wider feeling that a new era of world peace and progress was beginning.Sir William Beechey is appointed Portrait Painter to her Majesty, Queen Charlotte.
International
Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are executed and the Reign of Terror begins.France declares war on Britain, Holland and then Spain. William Pitt addresses the House of Commons and Britain hesitantly joins the first coalition of anti-revolutionary European states to oppose the French threat.
Attack on Corsica in which Captain Horatio Nelson loses an eye.
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