Sir Samuel Romilly
4 of 7 portraits of Sir Samuel Romilly
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Samuel Romilly
by Henry Bone, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, 1819 (circa 1806-1810)
6 3/8 in. x 4 5/8 in. (162 mm x 116 mm)
Acquired from Sir George Scharf, 1890
Reference Collection
NPG D17721
Sitterback to top
- Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818), Solicitor-General and law reformer. Sitter in 8 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Henry Bone (1755-1834), Enamel painter. Artist or producer associated with 677 portraits, Sitter in 6 portraits.
- Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), Portrait painter, collector and President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 696 portraits, Sitter in 25 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG L268: Sir Samuel Romilly (after)
- NPG D17738: Sir Samuel Romilly (variant version)
Events of 1819back to top
Current affairs
Peterloo Massacre leaves eleven dead and four hundred wounded as crowds, gathered to hear radical Henry Hunt call for reform of the House of Commons, are forcibly dispersed.Six Acts are passed, stiffening the 1795 Treason Act and introducing a tax on the periodical press which was viewed as seditious.
Art and science
Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Ode to the West Wind during a year of extraordinary creativity in which he also finishes Prometheus Unbound.Lord Byron publishes his tour-de-force Don Juan; one man's mock-epic odyssey through a world without fixed principles.
First ship with a steam engine crosses the Atlantic in twenty-eight days.
International
Thomas Jefferson establishes the University of Virginia.Royal Navy anti-slave squadron is set up to patrol the West African coastline.
French physician Rene Laennac invents the stethoscope.
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