Thomas Secker

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Thomas Secker

after Sir Joshua Reynolds
oil on canvas, based on a work of circa 1764-1765
30 in. x 25 1/8 in. (762 mm x 638 mm)
Purchased, 1890
Primary Collection
NPG 850

Sitterback to top

  • Thomas Secker (1693-1768), Archbishop of Canterbury. Sitter in 6 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), Painter and first President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 1425 portraits, Sitter associated with 40 portraits.

This portraitback to top

A copy of Reynolds' portrait of the Archbishop. More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian Portraits (1977, out of print).

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Current affairs

Radical John Wilkes publishes his pornographic parody of Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man; An Essay on Woman. Parliament moves to expel him once again but Wilkes flees to Paris. He is found guilty of obscene and seditious libel in his absence and declared an outlaw.
Sugar Act levies duty on sugar, wine and textiles imported into America while the Currency Act prohibits the American colonies from issuing paper currency in any form.

Art and science

8-year old composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in London with his family as part of a European tour and amazes British audiences.
Artist William Hogarth dies in London.
Connoisseur and collector Horace Walpole publishes The Castle of Otranto; regarded as the first gothic novel.
Lancashire weaver James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny.



International

Catherine the Great founds the Hermitage as a court museum attached to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg.
Nawab of Bengal Mir Qasim increasingly independent of the British and rebuilds Bengal's army. He captures the British garrison at Patna and executes his hostages. British forces are victorious at the decisive Battle of Buxar. Mir Qasim flees into exile in Delhi where he later dies.
Jesuits are expelled from France.


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