Sir John Fenn
5 of 17 portraits by Henry Walton
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir John Fenn
after Henry Walton
lithograph, circa 1792-1793
15 1/2 in. x 11 3/8 in. (393 mm x 289 mm) paper size
Given by Captain A.C. Moller, 1959
Reference Collection
NPG D36685
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- Sir John Fenn (1739-1794), Antiquary. Sitter in 3 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
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Current affairs
The famous seven year trial of Warren Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal, on charges of embezzlement and murder, ends with his acquittal. Pro-Revolutionary philosopher Joseph Priestley's house is destroyed by a mob on the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille. Their actions are later seen as a key moment in the defeat of Enlightenment ideals in England.Art and science
Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; a radical work which called on women to be allies to one another; fearless in their support and free in their criticism.Sir Joshua Reynolds dies and is succeeded by Benjamin West as President of the Royal Academy.
International
The mob invades the Tuileries and the French Royal Family is imprisoned marking the end of France's experiment with constitutional monarchy and the declaration of the first French Republic.The Revolutionary Commune is established in Paris.
France declares war on Austria and then Prussia.
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Administrator, on behalf of Norfolk Record Office
28 April 2020, 14:18
From ongoing work on the diaries of John Fenn.
In November 1792 Fenn wrote in his diary that he had received a letter from Mr Walton the artist asking him to go to London so that he could sketch his head as that would be better than doing a sketch from a drawing. One assumes he did go to London but the 1793 diary is missing. Fenn died February 1794.