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Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

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Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

by John Faber Jr, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
mezzotint, 1732 (circa 1703-1710)
Reference Collection
NPG D2559

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Artistsback to top

  • John Faber Jr (circa 1695-1756), Engraver and portrait and miniature painter. Artist associated with 816 portraits.
  • Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (1646-1723), Portrait painter. Artist associated with 1686 portraits, Sitter associated with 30 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG D20066: Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (from same plate)
  • NPG 3211: Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (after)
  • NPG D33111: Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (from same plate)

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Events of 1732back to top

Current affairs

Secession Church formed in Scotland.
Widespread fraud and abuses in the customs service revealed. Prime Minister Robert Walpole responds with the Excise scheme, under which the tariff on wine and tobacco is to be replaced by an excise tax.
British Hat Act limits manufacturing in the British colonies, forcing colonists to buy imported British-made goods.

Art and science

Frederick, Prince of Wales attends a fancy-dress ball at Vauxhall Gardens, initiating its supremacy as London's most fashionable meeting place.
William Hogarth produces the first prints of A Harlot's Progress, having completed the painted series the previous year.
The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) opens.

International

Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn is born.
Georgia in the American colonies is granted to a group of British philanthropists, to give debtors a new start in life.

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