Maurice Greene; John Hoadly
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Maurice Greene; John Hoadly
by Francis Hayman
oil on canvas, 1747
27 1/2 in. x 35 1/2 in. (699 mm x 902 mm)
Purchased, 1925
Primary Collection
NPG 2106
Sittersback to top
- Maurice Greene (1696-1755), Composer. Sitter associated with 3 portraits. Identify
- John Hoadly (1711-1776), Dramatist and chaplain to Frederick, Prince of Wales. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
Artistback to top
- Francis Hayman (circa 1707-1776), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 15 portraits, Sitter in 6 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Maurice Greene (seated) is composing the score of Phoebe, a pastoral opera, written by Hoadly and published in 1747, the year that Hayman painted this double portrait.
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).
Linked publicationsback to top
- Kerslake, John, Early Georgian Portraits, 1977, p. 113
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 263
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1747back to top
Current affairs
Jacobite Simon Fraser, 11th Baron Lovat is found guilty of high treason and beheaded by axe at the Tower of London; the last man to be executed in this way in Britain.Abolition of Hereditable Jurisdictions Act breaks the power of the Scottish clans.
Liverpool overtakes Bristol as Britain's busiest slave trading port.
Art and science
Actor David Garrick becomes co-manager of Drury Lane Theatre, London.Physician James Lind undertakes one of the first controlled medical experiments on the effect of citrus fruit as a cure for scurvy.
Hannah Glasse publishes The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy; eighteenth-century England's most popular cookbook.
International
War of the Austrian Succession: at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre the British fleet is victorious against the French. British forces led by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland are subsequently defeated by Marshal Maurice de Saxe's French army at the Battle of Lauffeld near Maastricht. At the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre the British fleet puts an end to French naval operations for the remainder of the war.Comments back to top
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