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The House of Commons 1793-94

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The House of Commons 1793-94

by Anton Hickel
oil on canvas, 1793-1795
127 in. x 177 in. (3226 mm x 4496 mm)
Given by Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1885
Primary Collection
NPG 745

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  • Karl Anton Hickel (1745-1798), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 5 portraits.

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  • NPG 3993: Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip (study)

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Current affairs

Whig MP Charles Grey enters a motion for parliamentary reform but is defeated in the House of Commons.

Art and science

Radical philosopher William Godwin publishes Political Justice, an inflamatory document that promoted rational anarchism. This crystallised a wider feeling that a new era of world peace and progress was beginning.
Sir William Beechey is appointed Portrait Painter to her Majesty, Queen Charlotte.

International

Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are executed and the Reign of Terror begins.
France declares war on Britain, Holland and then Spain. William Pitt addresses the House of Commons and Britain hesitantly joins the first coalition of anti-revolutionary European states to oppose the French threat.
Attack on Corsica in which Captain Horatio Nelson loses an eye.

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