Richard Brinsley Sheridan
3 of 168 portraits of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
by Unknown artist
line engraving, published 1 November 1777
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D5967
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- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), Dramatist and parliamentary orator. Sitter associated with 168 portraits.
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Current affairs
Trent and Mersey Canal is completed under the supervision of engineer James Brindley.Philanthropist and reformer John Howard publishes his study The State of the Prisons in England and Wales.
Art and science
Artist James Barry begins his monumental series of paintings The Progress of Human Culture for the Great Room of the Society of Arts in London. He completes it in 1783.Richard Brinsley Sheridan's second play, The School for Scandal, is an immediate success in London's Drury Lane Theatre.
Entrepreneur William Bass establishes the Bass Brewery at Burton upon Trent.
International
American War of Independence: George Washington, heavily defeated at the Battle of Brandywine, is forced to relinquish Philadelphia to the British under General William Howe. At the two Battles of Saratoga only weeks later General John Burgoyne is forced to surrender to the Americans, marking a turning point in the war. The Continental Congress agrees the final version of the Articles of Confederation, defining the terms on which states join the Union.Comments back to top
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