Regency Portraits Catalogue
James Sadler (1753-1828), Aeronaut
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1784-5
Portrait by James Roberts (also an Oxford man), known from Edmund Scott's stipple published 2 May 1785 and dedicated to the Chancellor and officials of Oxford University, shows him as 'The first English Aerostatist', painted shortly after his ascent from Oxford in a hot air balloon 4 October 1784.
1812
Drawing and stipple engraving by B. Taylor, published 1 May 1812.
Undated
Several magnificent coloured aquatints illustrate his ballooning exploits between 1810 and 1813 - his ascent from Oxford and his dramatic escape from drowning in the Bristol Channel in 1810, his crossing the Irish Sea from Dublin in 1812, and, from a drawing by Bonington, his flight from Nottingham in 1813 (see J. E. Hodgson, 'Early Aeronautical Prints' in Connoisseur, XCVI, 1935, p 23 in colour, and L. T. C. Rolt, The Aeronauts, 1966, p 128).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
Portrait by James Roberts (also an Oxford man), known from Edmund Scott's stipple published 2 May 1785 and dedicated to the Chancellor and officials of Oxford University, shows him as 'The first English Aerostatist', painted shortly after his ascent from Oxford in a hot air balloon 4 October 1784.
1812
Drawing and stipple engraving by B. Taylor, published 1 May 1812.
Undated
Several magnificent coloured aquatints illustrate his ballooning exploits between 1810 and 1813 - his ascent from Oxford and his dramatic escape from drowning in the Bristol Channel in 1810, his crossing the Irish Sea from Dublin in 1812, and, from a drawing by Bonington, his flight from Nottingham in 1813 (see J. E. Hodgson, 'Early Aeronautical Prints' in Connoisseur, XCVI, 1935, p 23 in colour, and L. T. C. Rolt, The Aeronauts, 1966, p 128).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.