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Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, exhibited 1827
92 in. x 56 in. (2337 mm x 1422 mm)
Given by an anonymous donor through the Art Fund, 1918
Primary Collection
NPG 1804

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  • Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), Portrait painter, collector and President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 696 portraits, Sitter in 25 portraits.

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  • Cox, Paul, Wellington: Triumphs, Politics and Passions, 2015 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 12 March - 7 June 2015), p. 98 Read entry

    The difficult question for the British government, headed by Prime Minister Lord Liverpool, was what to do with such an illustrious living military personality. Wellington's international fame and prestige were virtually without precedent, and for him to remain within the army in a purely military capacity would have appeared insufficient recognition of this status. The solution was to invite him into government, but this was not an offer that he accepted without hestitation.

  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 384
  • Walker, Richard, Regency Portraits, 1985, p. 319

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Current affairs

Lord Liverpool suffers a stroke and is forced to resign as Prime Minister. George Canning succeeds him only to die after four months in office.

Art and science

University College London, the first metropolitan university in England, is founded specifically to educate dissenters excluded from Oxford and Cambridge. Whig politician Henry Brougham, writer Thomas Campbell and financier and philanthropist Isaac Goldsmid are its principal patrons.

International

Britain, France and Russia sign a treaty in London agreeing to intervene in the Greek War of Independence. Allied troops under General Edward Codrington subsequently destroy Turkish and Egyptian fleets at the Battle of Navarino.
Western Australia is explored for the first time by Captain Stirling.

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