Elizabeth Craven (née Berkeley), Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth
Tate; on loan to the National Portrait Gallery, London
Elizabeth Craven (née Berkeley), Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth
by Ozias Humphry
oil on canvas, circa 1780-1783
23 3/4 in. x 20 in. (605 mm x 506 mm)
Lent by Tate Gallery, 2002
Primary Collection
NPG L223
On display in Room 17 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
Sitterback to top
- Elizabeth Craven (née Berkeley), Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth (1750-1828), Dramatist; author; traveller. Sitter in 5 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Ozias Humphry (1742-1810), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 45 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Elizabeth was admired for her beauty and for her adventurousness and literary talents. This painting depicts her at the start of her literary career, which was launched with a production of The Miniature Picture, performed at Drury Lane in 1780.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Birkett, Dea; Morris, Jan (foreword), Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers, 2004 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 7 July to 31 October 2004), p. 48
Events of 1780back to top
Current affairs
Anti-Catholic mob led by Lord George Gordon marches on Parliament to protest against the Catholic Relief Act, leading to the outbreak of the Gordon Riots in London. Six days of rioting are ended by the intervention of troops, with 285 people shot dead.Dunning's Motion in Parliament attacks the influence of the crown, suggesting that it has increased and ought to be diminished.
Art and science
Royal Academy moves to Somerset House on The Strand, London.Mrs E. Johnson's British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, the first Sunday newspaper in Britain, begins publication.
Potter Josiah Wedgwood invents the pyrometer; a device used for measuring high temperatures.
International
American War of Independence: British troops under Charles Cornwallis defeat American army under Horatio Gates at Camden, South Carolina. The capture of British army officer and spy John André yields proof that US general Benedict Arnold is in the pay of the British. André is executed in as a spy.Second Anglo-Mysore War in India between Hyder Ali and the East India Company.
Bolshoi Theatre of opera and ballet is founded in Moscow.
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