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Thomas Ken

1 of 7 portraits by F. Scheffer

Overview
Extended Catalogue Entry

Thomas Ken

by F. Scheffer
oil on canvas, feigned oval, circa 1710
29 3/4 in. x 24 3/4 in. (756 mm x 629 mm)
Given by James D.C. Wickham, 1918
Primary Collection
NPG 1821

On display at Lyme Park, Stockport

Sitterback to top

Thomas Ken (1637-1711), Bishop of Bath and Wells. Sitter in 20 portraits.

Artistback to top

F. Scheffer (active 1700-1710), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 7 portraits.

Linked publicationsback to top

Ingamells, John, Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, 2009, p. 136
Ollard, Richard, Character Sketches: Samuel Pepys and His Circle, 2000, p. 52
Ollard, Richard, Pepys and his Contemporaries, 2015, p. 78
Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 349

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Events of 1710back to top

Current affairs

Clergyman Henry Sacheverell is impeached on account of his sermons in which he attacks the Whig government and the revolution settlement of 1688-9. The trial caused rioting, and revived Jacobites sentiments and resentment against the government.
Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, returns to Parliament as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Art and science

The Examiner, a Tory government propaganda journal devised by Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford and Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, is published. Under its editor, Jonathan Swift, the weekly sheet defended the policies of the new Tory government. The Whigs responded with The Medley, principally written by Arthur Maynwaring.

International

Following the victories at the Battles of Almenara and Saragossa in the War of the Spanish Succession, the allied forces experience a set back at the Battle of Brihuega during which, James Stanhope, Earl of Stanhope, Commander in Chief of the British Forces in Spain, is taken prisoner.

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