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James Kemp

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James Kemp

by Thomas Hodgetts, after John Renton
mezzotint, published 1819
12 7/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. (328 mm x 240 mm) plate size; 15 3/8 in. x 11 1/8 in. (390 mm x 282 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D3363

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  • James Kemp (1746-1819), Founder of the Sunday School at Hoxton Independent Chapel. Sitter in 2 portraits.

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  • Thomas Hodgetts (circa 1781-1858), Painter and engraver. Artist or producer associated with 76 portraits.
  • John Renton (1774-circa 1841), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 6 portraits.

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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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