Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Bt

1 portrait by Sir Martin Archer Shee

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Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Bt

by Sir Martin Archer Shee
oil on canvas, 1819
29 in. x 24 in. (737 mm x 610 mm)
Purchased, 1942
Primary Collection
NPG 3124

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Artistback to top

  • Sir Martin Archer Shee (1769-1850), Portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 91 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG 3124a: Jane, Lady Munro (companion portrait)
  • NPG D39093: Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Bt (source portrait)

Linked publicationsback to top

  • Bayly, Christopher, The Raj: India and the British 1600-1947, 1990 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 19 October 1990 - 17 March 1991), p. 176
  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 448
  • Walker, Richard, Regency Portraits, 1985, p. 352

Events of 1819back to top

Current affairs

Peterloo Massacre leaves eleven dead and four hundred wounded as crowds, gathered to hear radical Henry Hunt call for reform of the House of Commons, are forcibly dispersed.
Six Acts are passed, stiffening the 1795 Treason Act and introducing a tax on the periodical press which was viewed as seditious.

Art and science

Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Ode to the West Wind during a year of extraordinary creativity in which he also finishes Prometheus Unbound.
Lord Byron publishes his tour-de-force Don Juan; one man's mock-epic odyssey through a world without fixed principles.
First ship with a steam engine crosses the Atlantic in twenty-eight days.

International

Thomas Jefferson establishes the University of Virginia.
Royal Navy anti-slave squadron is set up to patrol the West African coastline.
French physician Rene Laennac invents the stethoscope.

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