Thomas Love Peacock
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Love Peacock
by Roger Jean
watercolour on ivory, circa 1805
3 in. x 2 3/8 in. (76 mm x 60 mm) oval
Purchased, 1956
Primary Collection
NPG 3994
Artistback to top
- Roger Jean (circa 1783-1828), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 3 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Holmes, Richard, The Romantic Poets and Their Circle, 2013, p. 103
- Holmes, Richard, Insights: The Romantic Poets and Their Circle, 2005, p. 84
- Holmes, Richard; Crane, David; Woof, Robert; Hebron, Stephen, Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, 2002, p. 75
- Ormond, Richard, Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, p. 366
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 484
- Walker, Richard, Miniatures: 300 Years of the English Miniature, 1998, p. 105 Read entry
Peacock formed a close relationship with Shelley, who appears in various guises, in his satirical novels Headlong Hall (1816), Melincourt (1817) and Nightmare Abbey (1818). These are brilliant extravaganzas, full of humour, surveying the contemporary political and cultural scene with a critical eye. His portrait by Roger Jean, a Channel Islander, was painted long before Peacock became well known and was acquired from a descendant together with two other miniatures of the Peacock family.
- Woof, Robert; Hebron, Stephen, Romantic Icons, 1999, p. 77
Events of 1805back to top
Current affairs
Nelson's state funeral is held at St Paul's. An occasion for an outpouring of national grief and patriotism, the grand ceremony built on the cult of Nelson which had emerged in the years before his death.Art and science
Mary Tighe publishes Pysche or the Legend of Love, a romantic allegory in the fashionable medieval revival style, admired by both Keats and Shelley.The 'poems of Ossian' are officially declared a fake and a great literary scandal ends as Scottish poet James Macpherson is exposed as the forger of the third century bard's epic works.
International
Battle of Trafalgar. Napoleon's ultimate plan to invade England from Boulogne with 100,000 men is thwarted by superior British naval power. Nelson dies in the closing moments of battle having been wounded by a French sniper, but survives long enough to learn that a decisive victory has been won.Comments back to top
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