William Pitt
(1759-1806), Prime MinisterRegency Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter associated with 174 portraits
Pitt dominated Parliament as Tory Prime Minister from 1783 to 1801 and 1804 to 1806. He restructured Britain's finances after the American Revolution and reformed the government of India in 1784. Pitt regarded the French Revolution as a foreign issue but began to worry that British radicals were in touch with French revolutionaries. After France declared war in 1793, he clamped down on domestic dissent with the first series of 'gagging acts'. In 1800 he arranged a Parliamentary union with Ireland but resigned in 1801 over George III's opposition to Catholics sitting in Parliament. Pitt's rivalry with Fox, his political and temperamental opposite, dominated Parliament for over twenty years.
by James Godby, after William Owen
stipple engraving printed in colours, published 1804
NPG D16446
by Thomas Gaugain, published by Edward Orme, after Thomas Gainsborough
stipple engraving, published 4 June 1805
NPG D40243
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 26 February 1805
NPG D12840
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 10 March 1805
NPG D12841
'Political-candour; - i.e. - Coalition-"resolutions" of June 14th 1805. - pro bono publico'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 21 June 1805
NPG D12846
'End of the Irish farce of Catholic Emancipation'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 17 May 1805
NPG D13110
by Richard Earlom, published by Josiah Boydell, after Gainsborough Dupont
mezzotint, published 1 August 1806 (1792)
NPG D40240
An Independent Tribute to the Memory of the Right Hon. William Pitt
by James Godby, printed by John Nichols, after Edward Orme
stipple engraving and letterpress, 25 January 1806
NPG D40246
by George Clint, after John Hoppner
mezzotint, published 1806
NPG D40253
by George Clint, after John Hoppner
mezzotint, published 1806
NPG D1711
by Francesco Bartolozzi, after William Owen
line engraving, published 1806
NPG D5529
by Peter Wyon
white metal medal, 1806
NPG D7055
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 16 February 1806
NPG D12859
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 5 April 1806
NPG D12863
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published 21 April 1806
NPG D12864
after Sir Thomas Lawrence
gravure, (1807)
NPG D40254
'Political mathematician's, shaking the Broad Bottom'd hemispheres'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and engraving, published 9 January 1807
NPG D12884
by William Bromley, published by Robert Bowyer, after Thomas Gainsborough
line engraving, published 4 June 1808
NPG D40251
by William Bromley, published by Robert Bowyer, after Thomas Gainsborough
line engraving, published 4 June 1808
NPG D40252
by Charles Williams, after Elizabeth Walker
hand-coloured etching, published 23 February 1808
NPG D47474
Related People
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (father)
- John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham (brother)
- James Charles Pitt (brother)
- Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (niece)
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