Owen MacSwinny (or Swinny)

1 portrait by Jean Baptiste van Loo

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Owen MacSwinny (or Swinny)

by John Faber Jr, after Jean Baptiste van Loo
mezzotint, 1752
13 7/8 in. x 9 7/8 in. (352 mm x 250 mm) plate size; 17 3/4 in. x 11 3/4 in. (452 mm x 297 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D40788

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  • John Faber Jr (circa 1695-1756), Engraver and portrait and miniature painter. Artist or producer associated with 818 portraits.
  • Jean Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 57 portraits.

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  • NPG D5203: Owen MacSwinny (or Swinny) (from same plate)
  • NPG D20403: Owen MacSwinny (or Swinny) (from same plate)
  • NPG D5202: Owen MacSwinny (or Swinny) (from same plate)

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Current affairs

Calendar Act (also known as Chesterfield's Act after Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield) comes into force, abolishing the old Julian calendar and adopting the more accurate Gregorian calendar. The year now begins on 1st January rather than 25th March.
Parliament passes a bill to bestow estates forfeited by Jacobites to the Crown and use the revenue to develop the Scottish Highlands.

Art and science

Artist William Hogarth publishes his influential book The Analysis of Beauty which presents his ideas about aesthetics.
Charles Avison publishes Essay on Musical Expression; the first work of musical criticism published in English.
Obstetrician William Smellie introduces scientific midwifery.

International

Benjamin Franklin flies a kite into a thunder cloud to demonstrate the nature of electricity.
Georgia becomes a royal colony; the last of the thirteen American colonies.
French seize or evict every English-speaking trader in the region of upper Ohio. Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
Robert Clive forces the surrender of French troops in the aftermath of the Siege of Trichinopoly in India.

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