Henry Angelo
(1756-1835), Fencing masterHenry Charles William Angelo
Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 3 portraits
Artist associated with 3 portraits
The son of the famous Italian swordmaster, Domenico Tremonando, Henry Angelo inherited his father's Fencing Academy in Bond Street, London in 1785. It was there, in an atmosphere somewhere between that of a private club and a gymnasium, that many of the famous names of the period, including Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Lord Byron practised in the shooting gallery and took lessons in fencing and boxing. All three men featured in Angelo's amusing autobiography Reminiscences. The 'Bond Street Academy' provided the perfect meeting place for the aristocracy and the London underworld and was often implicated in contemporary gossip and scandal.
Henry Angelo as Mrs Cole in Foote's 'The Minor'
by William Satchwell Leney (Lenney), published by John Bell, after Samuel De Wilde
etching, published 29th September 1792
On display in Room 11 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L269.B8.27
after B.F. Scott, after John Raphael Smith
pencil, 19th century (1791)
NPG D4092
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