Cuthbert Collingwood, Baron Collingwood
1 of 3 portraits by Giuseppe Politi
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Cuthbert Collingwood, Baron Collingwood
by Henry Howard, after a painting by Giuseppe Politi
oil on canvas, 1828, based on a work of 1807
50 in. x 40 in. (1270 mm x 1016 mm)
Purchased, 1908
Primary Collection
NPG 1496
Sitterback to top
- Cuthbert Collingwood, Baron Collingwood (1748-1810), Admiral. Sitter in 13 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Henry Howard (1769-1847), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 28 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.
- Giuseppe Politi (active 1807), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 3 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 136
- Walker, Richard, Regency Portraits, 1985, p. 122
Events of 1807back to top
Current affairs
Act is passed abolishing the British slave trade after vigorous campaigning by hundreds of thousands of people led by Thomas Clarkson and championed in parliament by reformer William Wilberforce.Resignation of 'Ministry of all the Talents'. Whig politician William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of Portland, succeeds as Prime Minister.
Art and science
Thomas Hope publishes Household Furniture and Interior Decoration; influential in promoting Greek and especially Egyptian models as the epitome of fashionable style.International
French invasion of Spain and Portugal.Britain occupies Copenhagen and captures the Danish fleet.
Napoleon begins to wage an economic battle against Britain, recognising the impossibility of victory at sea because of Britain's superior naval power. He aims to close the entire European coastline to British trade.
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Robert Pitt
20 October 2022, 09:59
This painting or one of its copies was in the collection of Dr Samuel Parr, Hatton parsonage, Warwickshire. Circa 1820. It appears in a painting of the interior of the drawing room by his granddaughter.
This watercolour is one of 5 of this subject in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.