Colin Milne
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Colin Milne
by John Russell
pastel, 1803
24 in. x 18 in. (610 mm x 457 mm)
Purchased, 1978
Primary Collection
NPG 5180
Artistback to top
- John Russell (1745-1806), Portrait painter and pastellist. Artist or producer associated with 102 portraits, Sitter associated with 6 portraits.
This portraitback to top
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.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 340
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 432
Events of 1803back to top
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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