Sir Robert Thomas Wilson
1 portrait by Henry William Pickersgill
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Robert Thomas Wilson
by and published by William Ward, after Henry William Pickersgill
mezzotint, published 29 October 1819
20 1/8 in. x 14 in. (510 mm x 355 mm) plate size; 24 3/4 in. x 18 3/4 in. (629 mm x 476 mm) paper size
Given by Royal Hospital Chelsea, 1962
Reference Collection
NPG D37033
Sitterback to top
- Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (1777-1849), General and politician. Sitter in 15 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 111 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.
- William Ward (1766-1826), Engraver; father of William James Ward. Artist or producer associated with 170 portraits.
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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