William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, 1722
29 3/4 in. x 24 3/4 in. (756 mm x 629 mm)
Given by Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper, 1899
Primary Collection
NPG 1228
Sitterback to top
- William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (1665-1723), Lord Chancellor. Sitter in 4 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (1646-1723), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 1689 portraits, Sitter associated with 30 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ingamells, John, Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, 2009, p. 58
- Piper, David, Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, 1625-1714, 1963, p. 87
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 148
Events of 1722back to top
Current affairs
Atterbury Plot discovered; Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester is accused of promoting the Jacobite rising. Other leading Jacobite sympathisers are also arrested and Atterbury is banished the following year.General Election is won by the Whigs.
Art and science
Daniel Defoe publishes his novel Moll Flanders which traces the redemption of Moll, a penitent prostitute, thief and American convict.Writer and politician Richard Steele premieres his play The Conscious Lovers at the Drury Lane Theatre, London to great acclaim.
International
In sweeping reforms aimed at modernising Russia, Peter the Great introduces the Table of Ranks; a new meritocratic order of precedence which aims to break the power of the hereditary nobility.Dutch discover Easter Island, beginning a spate of European discovery in the islands of the Pacific.
Iroquois League of Native Americans becomes known as the Six Nations, after the Tuscarora join the group.
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