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Joseph Samuel Webster

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Joseph Samuel Webster

by James Basire, after Joseph Samuel Webster
line engraving, published 1804
4 in. x 3 in. (102 mm x 75 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D16918

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  • Joseph Samuel Webster (1774-1796), Artist. Sitter in 4 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 14 portraits.

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  • James Basire (1730-1802), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 85 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
  • Joseph Samuel Webster (1774-1796), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 14 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.

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  • NPG D16917: Joseph Samuel Webster (from same plate)
  • NPG D16919: Joseph Samuel Webster (from same plate)

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Current affairs

William Pitt returns to office and forms a second coalition administration, retaining many of those who had served under his predecessor Henry Addington but specifically excluding his arch rival Charles James Fox .

Art and science

William Blake starts writing Jerusalem. One of his most ambitious allegorical poems, it took nearly eight years to complete.
Amidst infighting about submissions to the annual exhibition, attempts are made to unseat painter Benjamin West as President of the Royal Academy and elect architect James Wyatt instead.

International

Napoleon declares himself Emperor of France and is crowned as Napoleon I by Pope Pius VII in Paris.
Haiti achieves independence led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the patriot and martyr who had seized control from the French in 1801. He becomes a symbolic figure of freedom for the British anti-slavery movement.

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Christopher Newbury

07 August 2016, 02:04

You have the name wrong here, the sitter is not Joseph Samuel Webster, it's Joseph Webster of Loughborough, born 1774. The original engraving was printed as the lower half of Plate II in the Gentleman's Magazine of September 1796, and a letter on the opposite page of that issue refers to a notice in the previous issue, at p. 702, which gives the subject's date of birth as 1774. Joseph Samuel Webster was working at least as early as the 1750s, so this clearly is another man.