Sir Home Riggs Popham







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Sir Home Riggs Popham
by and published by Anthony Cardon, after Mather Brown
stipple engraving, published 1807
17 7/8 in. x 14 3/8 in. (453 mm x 364 mm) plate size; 18 3/8 in. x 14 5/8 in. (467 mm x 371 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1925
Reference Collection
NPG D40357
Artistsback to top
- Mather Brown (1761-1831), Portrait and history painter. Artist or producer associated with 28 portraits.
- Anthony Cardon (1772-1813), Engraver and print publisher. Artist or producer associated with 68 portraits.
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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (37 London Street, Fitzroy Square, London)
Events of 1807back to top
Current affairs
Act is passed abolishing the British slave trade after vigorous campaigning by hundreds of thousands of people led by Thomas Clarkson and championed in parliament by reformer William Wilberforce.Resignation of 'Ministry of all the Talents'. Whig politician William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of Portland, succeeds as Prime Minister.
Art and science
Thomas Hope publishes Household Furniture and Interior Decoration; influential in promoting Greek and especially Egyptian models as the epitome of fashionable style.International
French invasion of Spain and Portugal.Britain occupies Copenhagen and captures the Danish fleet.
Napoleon begins to wage an economic battle against Britain, recognising the impossibility of victory at sea because of Britain's superior naval power. He aims to close the entire European coastline to British trade.
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