Warren Hastings

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Warren Hastings

by Thomas Banks
bronze bust, 1794, based on a work of 1790
27 1/2 in. (699 mm) high
Purchased, 1866
Primary Collection
NPG 209

Sitterback to top

  • Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor-General of India. Sitter associated with 48 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • Thomas Banks (1735-1805), Sculptor. Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.

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Banks described Hastings's features and 'grand' forehead as 'the finest he had seen in modern heads'. This bust was eventually carved in marble, but Banks cast a number of bronzes from a terracotta model.

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Current affairs

Attempts to modify the Test and Corporation Acts are defeated, despite campaigning by dissenters such as the prominent Unitarian preacher and pamphleteer, Richard Price. The Acts prevented those outside the established church from holding government or military office.

Art and science

Joseph Mallord William Turner exhibits his first painting at the Royal Academy; a watercolour of The Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth.
The Firth to Clyde and Oxford to Birmingham canals are begun.

International

Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France. A landmark work of opposition to the Revolution which offered a critique of the radical philosophy behind events in France; the Reflections have been read as an articulation of the foundations of modern British conservatism. George Vancouver explores the north west coast of America.

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