Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
12 of 34 portraits by Benjamin Robert Haydon
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
pencil, 1834
20 7/8 in. x 16 5/8 in. (530 mm x 422 mm)
Given by A.T. Playfair, 1951
Primary Collection
NPG 3784
Sitterback to top
- Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845), Prime Minister. Sitter associated with 190 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846), History painter and diarist. Artist or producer associated with 34 portraits, Sitter in 10 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 265
Events of 1834back to top
Current affairs
Sir Robert Peel, Tory, replaces Whig Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister, promising measured reform in a shift from reactionary 'Tory' to more measured 'Conservative' politics (he had voted for the 1832 Reform Act).Trial of Tolpuddle Martyrs, six labourers transported to Australia after trying to raise funds for workers in need by forming a Friendly Society.
Art and science
Charles Babbage's invents the Analytic Machine. Considered to be the forerunner to the modern computer, the machine was able to make automatic mathematical calculations.Edward Bulwer-Lytton publishes his hugely popular, but now largely neglected, novel Last Days of Pompeii, set in the Italian city at the time of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79AD.
International
Dom Miguel I, King of Portugal, is defeated by his brother Pedro IV, in the Portuguese civil war.Slavery is abolished in the British dominions, although slaves still working are indentured to their former owners in an 'apprenticeship' system; the philanthropist Joseph Sturge was a prominent critic of the policy, which was abolished in 1838. Whilst slave owners received compensation, slaves received nothing.
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