Rebecca (née Lockhart), Countess of Erroll when Lady Boyd
4 of 4 portraits of Rebecca (née Lockhart), Countess of Erroll
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Rebecca (née Lockhart), Countess of Erroll when Lady Boyd
by James Macardell, after Allan Ramsay
mezzotint, 1749
13 7/8 in. x 10 in. (353 mm x 253 mm)plate size; 15 1/8 in. x 10 5/8 in. (383 mm x 270 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D1860
Sitterback to top
- Rebecca (née Lockhart), Countess of Erroll (died 1761), First wife of 15th Earl of Erroll; daughter of Alexander Lockhart of Craighouse. Sitter in 4 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- James Macardell (1727 or 1728-1765), Mezzotint engraver. Artist or producer associated with 294 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.
- Allan Ramsay (1713-1784), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 120 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D1859: Rebecca (née Lockhart), Countess of Erroll when Lady Boyd (from same plate)
- NPG D36195: Rebecca (née Lockhart), Countess of Erroll when Lady Boyd (from same plate)
- NPG D36196: Rebecca (née Lockhart), Countess of Erroll when Lady Boyd (from same plate)
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Events of 1749back to top
Current affairs
Royal Fireworks in Green Park to celebrate the Peace of Aix-La-Chapelle. 10,000 rockets are let off at a cost of £8,000. Composer George Frideric Handel's accompanying Music for the Royal Fireworks is performed for the first time.George II is introduced to William Ansah Sessarakoo the 'Prince of Annamaboe'. The son of a wealthy chief from the West African Gold Coast, he had been taken prisoner and made a slave in the West Indies.
Art and science
Horace Walpole buys the house and grounds which he will transform into his neo-Gothic fantasy, Strawberry Hill, in Twickenham, London.Henry Fielding publishes his comic novel Tom Jones.
John Cleland's erotic novel Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) is published. The author is released from debtor's prison but arrested again later in the year and charged with corrupting the King's subjects.
International
George II grants a charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio valley in the American colonies.British settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded.
Sugar planters found Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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