Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles

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Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles

by George Francis Joseph
oil on canvas, 1817
55 in. x 43 in. (1397 mm x 1092 mm)
Given by the sitter's nephew, W.C. Raffles Flint, 1859
Primary Collection
NPG 84

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  • George Francis Joseph (1764-1846), Portrait and subject painter. Artist or producer associated with 23 portraits.

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This portrait was painted when Raffles returned to Britain to oversee the publication of his History of Java (1817). The Buddhist sculptures and the distant landscape allude to his study of the ethnography, ancient civilisation and languages of the region.

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  • NPG D39172: Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (source portrait)

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Current affairs

Princess Charlotte, only daughter of George, Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick, dies in childbirth, prompting widespread mourning.
Seditious Meetings Bill drives democratic societies underground.
Rising depression and discontent; Prince Regent's coach attacked at state opening of Parliament.

Art and science

John Keats begins to write his epic poem Endymion on the Isle of Wight; a rite of passage as a professional poet after deserting his medical career.
John Constable exhibits Flatford Mill, one of his most famous naturalistic landscape paintings, at the Royal Academy
John Rennie's new Waterloo Bridge opens.

International

Journalist William Cobbett flees to America fearing prosecution. Already imprisoned for two years for seditious libel he grew more vehemently pro-reform on his release and reduced the price of his weekly periodical the Political Register to expand its circulation and influence to all classes.
James Monroe is elected President of the United States.

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