Emma Hamilton ('Lady Hamilton as Ariadne')
1 portrait of Emma Hamilton
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Emma Hamilton ('Lady Hamilton as Ariadne')
after George Romney
line engraving, after 1827 (mid 1780s)
17 3/8 in. x 14 1/8 in. (442 mm x 359 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D35244
Sitterback to top
- Emma (née Lyon), Lady Hamilton (Baptised 1765-1815), Mistress of Lord Nelson. Sitter associated with 37 portraits.
Artistback to top
- George Romney (1734-1802), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 173 portraits, Sitter in 5 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D35242: Emma Hamilton ('Kate') (based on same portrait)
- NPG D35243: Emma Hamilton (based on same portrait)
Events of 1827back to top
Current affairs
Lord Liverpool suffers a stroke and is forced to resign as Prime Minister. George Canning succeeds him only to die after four months in office.Art and science
University College London, the first metropolitan university in England, is founded specifically to educate dissenters excluded from Oxford and Cambridge. Whig politician Henry Brougham, writer Thomas Campbell and financier and philanthropist Isaac Goldsmid are its principal patrons.International
Britain, France and Russia sign a treaty in London agreeing to intervene in the Greek War of Independence. Allied troops under General Edward Codrington subsequently destroy Turkish and Egyptian fleets at the Battle of Navarino.Western Australia is explored for the first time by Captain Stirling.
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Brian Heyes
27 December 2017, 11:55
Another print from the same edition is in the possession of Mr. And Mrs. Brian Heyes at Lavenham, Suffolk,