Reverend Thomas Wintle

1 portrait by James Wyatt

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Reverend Thomas Wintle

by George Henry Phillips, published by James Wyatt, after John Bridges
mezzotint, published 14 March 1834
16 3/4 in. x 13 in. (424 mm x 331 mm) plate size; 19 3/8 in. x 15 5/8 in. (492 mm x 396 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1956
Reference Collection
NPG D37067

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  • Thomas Wintle (active circa 1834), Reverend. Sitter associated with 1 portrait.

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  • John Bridges (active 1818-1854), Painter and draughtsman. Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.
  • George Henry Phillips (circa 1800-active 1852), Printmaker. Artist or producer associated with 23 portraits.
  • James Wyatt (1774-1853), Printseller, publisher and Mayor of Oxford. Artist or producer associated with 7 portraits.

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Current affairs

Sir Robert Peel, Tory, replaces Whig Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister, promising measured reform in a shift from reactionary 'Tory' to more measured 'Conservative' politics (he had voted for the 1832 Reform Act).
Trial of Tolpuddle Martyrs, six labourers transported to Australia after trying to raise funds for workers in need by forming a Friendly Society.

Art and science

Charles Babbage's invents the Analytic Machine. Considered to be the forerunner to the modern computer, the machine was able to make automatic mathematical calculations.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton publishes his hugely popular, but now largely neglected, novel Last Days of Pompeii, set in the Italian city at the time of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79AD.

International

Dom Miguel I, King of Portugal, is defeated by his brother Pedro IV, in the Portuguese civil war.
Slavery is abolished in the British dominions, although slaves still working are indentured to their former owners in an 'apprenticeship' system; the philanthropist Joseph Sturge was a prominent critic of the policy, which was abolished in 1838. Whilst slave owners received compensation, slaves received nothing.

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