Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stuart, Cardinal York
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stuart, Cardinal York
by Louis Gabriel Blanchet
oil on canvas, 1738
74 1/4 in. x 55 1/4 in. (1886 mm x 1403 mm)
Purchased, 1982
Primary Collection
NPG 5518
Sitterback to top
- Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stuart, Cardinal York (1725-1807), Son of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart. Sitter in 10 portraits.
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Painted for the Prince's father as a gift to his great-aunt, the Duchess of Parma, together with a portrait of his brother, Prince Charles. Here the thirteen-year old Prince gestures towards the White Cliffs of Dover to assert the Stuart claim to the British throne.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ribeiro, Aileen, The Gallery of Fashion, 2000, p. 112
- Ribeiro, Aileen; Blackman, Cally, A Portrait of Fashion: Six Centuries of Dress at the National Portrait Gallery, 2015, p. 126
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 683
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Events of 1738back to top
Current affairs
Fetter Lane Society founded in London by the Moravians; a reformed group of Protestants led by exiled Saxon Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf. He visits Britain to petition the king for protection for Moravian missionaries working in the British colonies. An act to this effect is finally passed in 1749.John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement.
Art and science
Artist Allan Ramsay returns to London from Rome and sets himself up as a portrait painter.Metallurgist William Champion patents a process to distil zinc from calamine using charcoal in a smelter.
International
Methodist preacher George Whitefield arrives in Savannah, Georgia to replace John Wesley; the first of seven visits across the Atlantic which make him one of the most widely recognised figures in the American colonies.Merchant sailor Robert Jenkins presents his pickled ear (cut off by Spanish coast-guards in Cuba in 1731) to Parliament stirring up war fever against Spain and leading to the War of Jenkins' Ear the following year.
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