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James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford

4 of 8 portraits by Thomas Macklin

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James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford

by Robert Dunkarton, published by Thomas Macklin, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 1 January 1790
24 7/8 in. x 16 7/8 in. (632 mm x 430 mm) plate size; 25 5/8 in. x 17 3/4 in. (650 mm x 452 mm) paper size
acquired unknown source, 1868
Reference Collection
NPG D37332

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  • Robert Dunkarton (circa 1744-1811?), Engraver and portrait painter. Artist associated with 166 portraits.
  • Thomas Macklin (1752 or 1753-1800), Printseller and picture dealer. Artist associated with 8 portraits.
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), Painter and first President of the Royal Academy. Artist associated with 1415 portraits, Sitter associated with 39 portraits.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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