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Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 3rd Bt

15 of 166 portraits by Michael Dahl

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Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 3rd Bt

after Michael Dahl
oil on canvas, 1729, based on a work of circa 1729
49 3/4 in. x 40 in. (1264 mm x 1016 mm)
Purchased, 1933
Primary Collection
NPG 2614

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  • Michael Dahl (1659-1743), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 166 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.

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This is an eighteenth century copy, perhaps from a whole length version still in the family. Wynn holds a paper inscribed: An Act for the more effectual preventing Bribery and Corruption in the Election of Members to Serve in Parliament, marking the successful passing of a bill he introduced into Parliament in 1729 to curb bribery at elections.

More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian Portraits (1977, out of print).

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Current affairs

Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the state of Britain's gaols.
Opening of the first Putney Bridge; the only fixed crossing of the River Thames between London Bridge and Kingston Bridge at the time.
Tornado destroys buildings in Sussex and Kent

Art and science

Chiswick House in London, a pioneering example of English Palladian revival architecture, is designed by its owner Richard Boyle with the help of the architect William Kent.
Jonathan Swift publishes A Modest Proposal; a satirical attack on attitudes towards the poor and Irish policy more generally.


International

Benjamin Franklin prints, publishes and largely writes the weekly Pennsylvania Gazette, which soon becomes the most successful newspaper in the colonies.
Treaty of Seville seals peace between Britain and Spain.
King Frederick IV of Denmark charters the Danish East India Company.

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