Thomas Secker
1 portrait by James Wills
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Secker
by James Macardell, sold by Mary Overton, after James Wills
mezzotint, 1747
14 in. x 9 7/8 in. (355 mm x 252 mm) plate size; 14 1/8 in. x 10 in. (358 mm x 255 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D4201
Artistsback to top
- James Macardell (1727 or 1728-1765), Mezzotint engraver. Artist or producer associated with 294 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.
- Mary Overton (active 1745-1748), Map and print publisher. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
- James Wills (died 1777), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 20 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D4202: Thomas Secker (from same plate)
- NPG D4203: Thomas Secker (from same plate)
- NPG D40627: Thomas Secker (from same plate)
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (opposite Fetter Lane end Fleet Street; facing Southampton Street in ye Strand, London)
Events of 1747back to top
Current affairs
Jacobite Simon Fraser, 11th Baron Lovat is found guilty of high treason and beheaded by axe at the Tower of London; the last man to be executed in this way in Britain.Abolition of Hereditable Jurisdictions Act breaks the power of the Scottish clans.
Liverpool overtakes Bristol as Britain's busiest slave trading port.
Art and science
Actor David Garrick becomes co-manager of Drury Lane Theatre, London.Physician James Lind undertakes one of the first controlled medical experiments on the effect of citrus fruit as a cure for scurvy.
Hannah Glasse publishes The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy; eighteenth-century England's most popular cookbook.
International
War of the Austrian Succession: at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre the British fleet is victorious against the French. British forces led by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland are subsequently defeated by Marshal Maurice de Saxe's French army at the Battle of Lauffeld near Maastricht. At the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre the British fleet puts an end to French naval operations for the remainder of the war.Comments back to top
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