Sir Cloudesley Shovell







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Sir Cloudesley Shovell
by John Faber Jr, sold by Thomas Bowles Jr, sold by John Bowles, after Michael Dahl
mezzotint, 1723 (1702)
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D4227
Artistsback to top
- John Bowles (1701?-1779), Printseller and publisher. Artist associated with 116 portraits.
- Thomas Bowles Jr (1689 or 1690?-1767), Printseller and publisher. Artist associated with 36 portraits.
- Michael Dahl (1659-1743), Portrait painter. Artist associated with 166 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
- John Faber Jr (circa 1695-1756), Engraver and portrait and miniature painter. Artist associated with 816 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D18896: Sir Cloudesley Shovell (from same plate)
- NPG D31548: Sir Cloudesley Shovell (from same plate)
- NPG 797: Sir Cloudesley Shovell (after)
- NPG D41667: Sir Cloudesley Shovell (from same plate)
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (Black Horse in Cornhill, London)
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (St Paul's Churchyard)
Events of 1723back to top
Current affairs
Exiled Jacobite leader Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke is pardoned and allowed to return to London from Paris.Workhouse Test Act under which poor relief claimants have to enter a workhouse.
Black Act makes poaching a capital offence.
Art and science
Architect Christopher Wren dies.Artist Joshua Reynolds is born in Plympton, Devon.
Portrait-painter Godfrey Kneller dies.
Philosopher Bernard de Mandeville republishes his celebrated Fable of the Bees with new essays on charity and the nature of society. They are vigorously combated and made the subject of prosecution in 1729.
International
Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, agrees that Hungary shall be ruled as a separate kingdom within his empire.Treaty of Charlottenburg signed between Britain and Prussia, which arranges for George I's grandson to marry a Prussian princess and Prince Frederick of Prussia to marry the Prince of Wales' daughter. It is never enacted.
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