Elizabeth Cresswell ('Mrs Creswell')







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Elizabeth Cresswell ('Mrs Creswell')
by G. Barrett, published by James Caulfield, after Marcellus Laroon
line engraving, published 1793
7 3/8 in. x 4 7/8 in. (187 mm x 124 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D30712
Sitterback to top
- Elizabeth Cresswell (circa 1625-circa 1698), Courtesan and procuress. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- G. Barrett (active 1796), Engraver and publisher. Artist or producer associated with 13 portraits.
- James Caulfield (1764-1826), Writer and publisher. Artist or producer associated with 47 portraits.
- Marcellus Laroon (1653-1702), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 17 portraits, Sitter associated with 1 portrait.
Events of 1793back to top
Current affairs
Whig MP Charles Grey enters a motion for parliamentary reform but is defeated in the House of Commons.Art and science
Radical philosopher William Godwin publishes Political Justice, an inflamatory document that promoted rational anarchism. This crystallised a wider feeling that a new era of world peace and progress was beginning.Sir William Beechey is appointed Portrait Painter to her Majesty, Queen Charlotte.
International
Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are executed and the Reign of Terror begins.France declares war on Britain, Holland and then Spain. William Pitt addresses the House of Commons and Britain hesitantly joins the first coalition of anti-revolutionary European states to oppose the French threat.
Attack on Corsica in which Captain Horatio Nelson loses an eye.
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