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Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby

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Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby

by John Faber Sr, after Unknown artist
mezzotint, 1714
10 3/8 in. x 7 7/8 in. (263 mm x 201 mm) plate size; 11 3/8 in. x 9 in. (290 mm x 230 mm) paper size
acquired unknown source, 1868
Reference Collection
NPG D47404

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  • John Faber Sr (circa 1660-1721), Draughtsman and engraver. Artist associated with 195 portraits.
  • Unknown artist, Artist. Artist associated with 6553 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG D23853: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (from same plate)
  • NPG D47403: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (from same plate)

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Events of 1714back to top

Current affairs

Queen Anne dies at Kensington Palace aged 49, on 1st August. The same day, under the Act of Regency, the regency council proclaims James I's great-grandson, George, elector of Hanover, king of Great Britain and Ireland, thus transferring the crown from the house of Stuart to the house of Hanover.

Art and science

Writer and politician, Sir Richard Steele, accepts the post of governorship for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Tenison, founds one of the first co-educational schools in Croydon.
The Longitude Act offers a reward for the invention of a method of precisely determining a ship's longitude.

International

Despite the peace accord at Utrecht in 1713, ratification of the treaties of Rastatt and Baden are required to end the continued hostilities in the War of the Spanish Succession between the French king Louis XIV and Charles VI Archduke of Austria and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

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