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Colin Milne

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Colin Milne

by John Russell
pastel, 1803
24 in. x 18 in. (610 mm x 457 mm)
Purchased, 1978
Primary Collection
NPG 5180

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  • Colin Milne (1743-1815), Divine and botanist. Sitter in 2 portraits.

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  • John Russell (1745-1806), Portrait painter and pastellist. Artist or producer associated with 102 portraits, Sitter associated with 6 portraits.

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This portrait was one of eight pictures by Russell commissioned by R.J. Thornton for his lavish New Illustrations of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, published in parts from 1799.

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Current affairs

The Vice Society is formally established by John Reeves and his associates to campaign against blasphemy and immorality, particularly that perpetrated by Thomas Paine and the Edinburgh Review.

Art and science

Erasmus Darwin's Temple of Nature published posthumously. A scientific treaty in the form of an elaborate couplet poem, its content anticipated some of the evolutionary ideas developed by his grandson, Charles Darwin, fifty years later.
Construction of the Caledonian Canal begins.

International

War with France resumes, sparking new fears of a cross-channel invasion.
United Irishman, Robert Emmett's attempted uprising in Dublin. Planned to coincide with Napoleon's expected invasion, it aimed to overthrow the English administration but ended in failure. Emmett is hanged along with several other conspirators.

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