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Richard Dickinson

15 of 37 portraits by Hans Hysing

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Richard Dickinson

after Hans Hysing
etching, (circa 1725)
10 1/1 in. x 11 3/4 in. (279 mm x 298 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D20534

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  • Richard Dickinson (1669-1739), 'Governor of Scarborough Spaw'. Sitter associated with 7 portraits.

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  • Hans Hysing (1678-1752 or 1753), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 37 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

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Current affairs

Notorious 'Thief Taker General' Jonathan Wild is hanged at Tyburn. He ran one of the most successful gangs of thieves of the era, while appearing to be the nation's leading policeman.
Pardoned Jacobite leader Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke forms an opposition to the Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
Order of the Bath is founded by King George I.

Art and science

Poet Alexander Pope produces a new edition of Shakespeare, which he rewrites and edits in numerous places.
Philosopher Francis Hutcheson publishes his first major work An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, published in two treatises concerning aesthetics and morality.

International

Russian tsar Peter the Great dies.
Treaty of Hanover between England, France and Prussia.
Composer Antonio Vivaldi debuts the set of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons.
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach debuts his Easter Oratorio in Leipzig.

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