Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales

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Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales

by Charles Philips
oil on canvas, circa 1736
50 1/4 in. x 40 in. (1276 mm x 1016 mm)
Purchased, 1925
Primary Collection
NPG 2093

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  • Charles Philips (1708-1747), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 18 portraits.

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This portrait may have been made on the occasion of Augusta's marriage to Frederick, Prince of Wales. She is wearing a grey brocaded dress and an ermine-lined crimson cloak to signify her royal status. To her left is a throne displaying the Prince of Wales's feathers. More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian Portraits (1977, out of print).

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  • NPG D9121: Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (after)

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Current affairs

Frederick, Prince of Wales marries Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.
Porteous Riots in Edinburgh after the execution of smuggler Andrew Wilson. Captain John Porteous orders his men to fire into the mob, causing six deaths. He is found guilty of murder, dragged from his cell, beaten and hung to death by a mob.
Repeal of laws against witchcraft.
Gin Act attempts to curtail consumption of gin.

Art and science

Posthumous publication of Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions, describing his method of differential calculus.
One of the earliest recorded uses of a Bathing Machine at Scarborough.

International

Methodist preachers John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia.
Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates the throne.
Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler produces the first published proof of Fermat's little theorem concerning prime numbers.
Charles Marie de La Condamine and François Fresneau Gataudière make the first scientific observations of rubber in Ecuador.

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