Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach when Princess of Wales

1 portrait of Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach

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Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach when Princess of Wales

by and published by John Clark, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
line engraving and etching, circa 1714-1727
7 7/8 in. x 6 1/2 in. (200 mm x 166 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D47410

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  • John Clark (active 1710-1720), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
  • Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (1646-1723), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 1689 portraits, Sitter associated with 30 portraits.

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Current affairs

Queen Anne dies at Kensington Palace aged 49, on 1st August. The same day, under the Act of Regency, the regency council proclaims James I's great-grandson, George, elector of Hanover, king of Great Britain and Ireland, thus transferring the crown from the house of Stuart to the house of Hanover.

Art and science

Writer and politician, Sir Richard Steele, accepts the post of governorship for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Tenison, founds one of the first co-educational schools in Croydon.
The Longitude Act offers a reward for the invention of a method of precisely determining a ship's longitude.

International

Despite the peace accord at Utrecht in 1713, ratification of the treaties of Rastatt and Baden are required to end the continued hostilities in the War of the Spanish Succession between the French king Louis XIV and Charles VI Archduke of Austria and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

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