David Garrick; William Shakespeare

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David Garrick; William Shakespeare

by John Sebastian Miller (formerly Johann Sebastian Müller)
stipple engraving, published 1769
4 3/4 in. x 7 5/8 in. (122 mm x 195 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D20571

Sittersback to top

  • David Garrick (1717-1779), Actor, playwright and theatre manager. Sitter associated with 61 portraits.
  • William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Dramatist and poet. Sitter associated with 107 portraits.

Artistback to top

Linked publicationsback to top

  • Cooper, Tarnya, Searching for Shakespeare, 2006 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 2 March - 29 May 2006), p. 223
  • Cooper, Tarnya, Searching for Shakespeare (hardback), 2006 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 2 March - 29 May 2006), p. 223

Events of 1769back to top

Current affairs

Radical John Wilkes is expelled from Parliament once again, on the grounds that he was an outlaw when he was voted in. He is re-elected by his Middlesex constituents, then expelled and re-elected twice more, until Parliament declares his opponent, Henry Luttrell, the winner.
First of 69 anonymous Letters of Junius appears in the Public Advertiser, exposing political corruption. The politician Sir Philip Francis is now believed to have been responsible.

Art and science

Josiah Wedgwood opens his Etruria Works for the manufacture of pottery.
Inventor Richard Arkwright patents a spinning frame able to weave fabric mechanically.
Gordon's London Dry Gin is produced for the first time.
First Royal Academy exhibition is held.
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage is first published.

International

Captain Cook observes the transit of Venus in Tahiti while his passengers, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, collect valuable specimens of Pacific flora. The expedition travels on to New Zealand where Cook begins charting the country's entire coastline.
Treaty of Madras ends the First Anglo-Mysore War but fails to settle dispute.
French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot tests a steam wagon, probably the first working mechanical vehicle.

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Kirsten Tambling

02 April 2019, 14:22

Also - your own citation for this print (Tarnya Cooper, p.223 - Marcia Pointon's essay) says this was published in the London Magazine for 1769?

Kirsten Tambling

02 April 2019, 14:12

Is 'J. Miller' actually Johann Sebastian Müller (1715 - 1792), active in London from 1744? He seems to have signed himself 'Miller' after his move to London, and the frontispiece he designed for his own 'Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus' (1777) is very similar to this - Müller himself appears opposite Linnaeus in a feigned oval. (https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UACWU0r3p3s/WN79QzgS0MI/AAAAAAAAlmo/06HNdlDpG7c_v61bDtEyHD7dNCcB-xkqwCLcB/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-03-31%2Bat%2B9.01.03%2BPM.png). I just had a quick look and although the BM have one copy of NPG D20571 that they give to 'J. Miller', they do have another attributed to Müller (https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3434509&partId=1&people=116494&peoA=116494-2-60&page=1). See also this reduced version featuring Shakespeare alone (https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3444645&partId=1&people=116494&peoA=116494-2-60&page=1). The later works in your collection that would bring 'Miller's' fleurit dates up to c1825 are lithographs rather than engravings - could they be the work of Müller's son, the engraver John Frederick?