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John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale

15 of 79 portraits by George Clint

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John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale

by George Clint, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
mezzotint, May 1804 (1803-1804)
21 1/2 in. x 16 1/2 in. (547 mm x 419 mm) plate size; 22 1/8 in. x 16 7/8 in. (561 mm x 430 mm) paper size
Given by John Herbert Dudley Ryder, 5th Earl of Harrowby, 1957
Reference Collection
NPG D39671

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  • George Clint (1770-1854), Portrait painter and engraver. Artist or producer associated with 79 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.
  • Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), Portrait painter, collector and President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 698 portraits, Sitter in 25 portraits.

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Current affairs

William Pitt returns to office and forms a second coalition administration, retaining many of those who had served under his predecessor Henry Addington but specifically excluding his arch rival Charles James Fox .

Art and science

William Blake starts writing Jerusalem. One of his most ambitious allegorical poems, it took nearly eight years to complete.
Amidst infighting about submissions to the annual exhibition, attempts are made to unseat painter Benjamin West as President of the Royal Academy and elect architect James Wyatt instead.

International

Napoleon declares himself Emperor of France and is crowned as Napoleon I by Pope Pius VII in Paris.
Haiti achieves independence led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the patriot and martyr who had seized control from the French in 1801. He becomes a symbolic figure of freedom for the British anti-slavery movement.

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