Philip Miller
2 of 2 portraits by C.F. Maillet
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Philip Miller
by C.F. Maillet, after Unknown artist
stipple and line engraving, 1787
7 1/2 in. x 5 3/8 in. (190 mm x 135 mm) paper size
Bequeathed by (Frederick) Leverton Harris, 1927
Reference Collection
NPG D15476
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- C.F. Maillet (active 1787). Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.
- Unknown artist, Artist. Artist or producer associated with 6578 portraits.
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Current affairs
Social reformers Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in London with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.George III shows first signs of mental instability in November.
Art and science
Painter Robert Barker takes out a patent on the Panorama..Astronomer William Herschel discovers the two moons of Uranus, Titania and Oberon.
The original Lord's Cricket Ground holds its first cricket match.
International
Captain William Bligh sets sail for Tahiti on The Bounty.First performance of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni at the National Theatre, Prague.
A British ship lands a party of freed slaves as the first modern settlers in Sierra Leone.
Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
Bahamas become a British colony.
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