Humphrey Wanley
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Humphrey Wanley
by Thomas Hill
oil on canvas, feigned oval, 1717
30 in. x 25 in. (762 mm x 635 mm)
Transferred from The British Museum, London, 1879
Primary Collection
NPG 579
Artistback to top
- Thomas Hill (1661-1734), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 29 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D11665: Humphrey Wanley (source portrait)
- NPG D19241: Humphrey Wanley (source portrait)
- NPG D4621: Humphrey Wanley (source portrait)
- NPG D4622: Humphrey Wanley (source portrait)
- NPG D38529: Humphrey Wanley (source portrait)
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ingamells, John, Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, 2009, p. 313
- Ollard, Richard, Character Sketches: Samuel Pepys and His Circle, 2000, p. 46
- Ollard, Richard, Pepys and his Contemporaries, 2015, p. 73
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 641
Events of 1717back to top
Current affairs
Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish ambassador, is arrested in London and imprisoned over a plot to assist the Pretender James Stuart.Bangorian controversy; a theological argument within the Church of England is initiated by the posthumous publication of a treatise written by George Hicks, Bishop of Thetford.
First Freemason's Grand Lodge is founded in London.
Art and science
Actor-manager Colley Cibber stages The Loves of Mars and Venus at the Drury Lane Theatre; the first ballet to be performed in Britain.Composer George Frideric Handel's Water Music is performed for the first time on a barge on the River Thames for George I.
International
John Law establishes the Mississippi Company to develop trade in Louisiania for France. His scheme results in the 'Mississippi Bubble'.Triple Alliance formed between England, France and the Dutch Republic to uphold the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht and maintain peace in Europe.
Competition between British and Dutch in factories on the coast of Mauritania results in the first 'gum war' over the lucrative trade in gum arabic.
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