Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
14 of 263 portraits by Thomas Gainsborough
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Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
by Thomas Gainsborough
oil on canvas, feigned oval, circa 1780
29 7/8 in. x 24 7/8 in. (760 mm x 631 mm)
Purchased, 1862
Primary Collection
NPG 150
Sitterback to top
- Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717-1797), Field Marshal. Sitter in 7 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), Portrait and landscape painter. Artist associated with 263 portraits, Sitter in 8 portraits.
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- Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 11
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 11
Events of 1780back to top
Current affairs
Anti-Catholic mob led by Lord George Gordon marches on Parliament to protest against the Catholic Relief Act, leading to the outbreak of the Gordon Riots in London. Six days of rioting are ended by the intervention of troops, with 285 people shot dead.Dunning's Motion in Parliament attacks the influence of the crown, suggesting that it has increased and ought to be diminished.
Art and science
Royal Academy moves to Somerset House on The Strand, London.Mrs E. Johnson's British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, the first Sunday newspaper in Britain, begins publication.
Potter Josiah Wedgwood invents the pyrometer; a device used for measuring high temperatures.
International
American War of Independence: British troops under Charles Cornwallis defeat American army under Horatio Gates at Camden, South Carolina. The capture of British army officer and spy John André yields proof that US general Benedict Arnold is in the pay of the British. André is executed in as a spy.Second Anglo-Mysore War in India between Hyder Ali and the East India Company.
Bolshoi Theatre of opera and ballet is founded in Moscow.
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