Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)
3 of 4 portraits by John Robinson
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor)
by and sold by John Faber Jr, after John Robinson
mezzotint, mid 1740s-mid 1750s
12 7/8 in. x 9 in. (327 mm x 228 mm) plate size; 14 5/8 in. x 10 1/2 in. (370 mm x 266 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D1950
Sitterback to top
- Lady Charlotte Finch (née Fermor) (1725-1813), Governess to children of George III. Sitter in 5 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- John Faber Jr (circa 1695-1756), Engraver and portrait and miniature painter. Artist or producer associated with 818 portraits.
- John Robinson (1715-1745), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.
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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street, London)
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Events of 1745back to top
Current affairs
Second Jacobite Rebellion: the Young Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie') lands in Scotland and proclaims his father king. Jacobite forces take Edinburgh and march into England as far as Derby but are forced to turn back due to lack of support.The song later to become the British national anthem, God Save the King, is first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in a setting by Thomas Arne.
Art and science
William Hogarth completes the six paintings of Marriage-à-la-Mode, his satirical take on upper-class eighteenth-century society.West towers of Westminster Abbey are completed
Satirical writer Jonathan Swift dies.
International
War of the Austrian Succession: the French army defeat Austrian, Dutch and British forces under the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Fontenoy.Madame de Pompadour becomes mistress to Louis XV of France.
Principle of the Leyden jar is discovered by German physicist, Ewald Georg von Kleist.
Artist Giovanni Batista Piranesi publishes the first of his Vedute (Views); a celebrated series of etchings of Rome.
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