Henry Angelo
1 of 3 portraits of Henry Angelo
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Henry Angelo
by Mather Brown
oil on canvas, circa 1790
30 1/2 in. x 25 1/2 in. (775 mm x 648 mm)
Purchased, 1980
Primary Collection
NPG 5310
On display in Room 18 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
Sitterback to top
- Henry Charles William Angelo (1756-1835), Fencing master. Sitter in 3 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 3 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Mather Brown (1761-1831), Portrait and history painter. Artist or producer associated with 29 portraits.
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The son of the famous Italian swordmaster, Domenico Tremonando, Henry Angelo inherited his father's Fencing Academy in Bond Street, London in 1785. It was there, in an atmosphere somewhere between that of a private club and a gymnasium, that many of the famous names of the period, including Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Lord Byron practised in the shooting gallery and took lessons in fencing and boxing. The 'Bond Street Academy' provided the perfect meeting place for the aristocracy and the London underworld and was often implicated in contemporary gossip and scandal.
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- Colville, Quinton; Williams, Kate, Emma Hamilton : seduction & celebrity, 2016, p. 41
- Holmes, Richard; Crane, David; Woof, Robert; Hebron, Stephen, Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, 2002, p. 127
- Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 13
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 13
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Events of 1790back to top
Current affairs
Attempts to modify the Test and Corporation Acts are defeated, despite campaigning by dissenters such as the prominent Unitarian preacher and pamphleteer, Richard Price. The Acts prevented those outside the established church from holding government or military office.Art and science
Joseph Mallord William Turner exhibits his first painting at the Royal Academy; a watercolour of The Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth.The Firth to Clyde and Oxford to Birmingham canals are begun.
International
Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France. A landmark work of opposition to the Revolution which offered a critique of the radical philosophy behind events in France; the Reflections have been read as an articulation of the foundations of modern British conservatism. George Vancouver explores the north west coast of America.Comments back to top
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