James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
1 portrait by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones
© National Portrait Gallery, London
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
by John Samuel Agar, published by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, after William Hilton, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
stipple engraving, published 1 March 1819
14 3/4 in. x 10 3/8 in. (376 mm x 265 mm) plate size; 18 1/4 in. x 12 3/8 in. (462 mm x 315 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D35250
Sitterback to top
- James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (1606-1649), Royalist leader and politician. Sitter associated with 42 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- John Samuel Agar (1773-1858), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 49 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
- William Hilton (1786-1839), History painter. Artist or producer associated with 61 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones (active 1818-1820), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 48 portraits.
- Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown (active 1815-1820), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 98 portraits.
- Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 1023 portraits, Sitter associated with 30 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D26575: James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (based on same portrait)
- NPG D35248: James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (based on same portrait)
- NPG D35249: James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (based on same portrait)
- NPG D35251: James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (based on same portrait)
Events of 1819back to top
Current affairs
Peterloo Massacre leaves eleven dead and four hundred wounded as crowds, gathered to hear radical Henry Hunt call for reform of the House of Commons, are forcibly dispersed.Six Acts are passed, stiffening the 1795 Treason Act and introducing a tax on the periodical press which was viewed as seditious.
Art and science
Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Ode to the West Wind during a year of extraordinary creativity in which he also finishes Prometheus Unbound.Lord Byron publishes his tour-de-force Don Juan; one man's mock-epic odyssey through a world without fixed principles.
First ship with a steam engine crosses the Atlantic in twenty-eight days.
International
Thomas Jefferson establishes the University of Virginia.Royal Navy anti-slave squadron is set up to patrol the West African coastline.
French physician Rene Laennac invents the stethoscope.
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