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Luigi Marchesi

2 of 3 portraits of Luigi Marchesi

Luigi Marchesi

by Luigi Schiavonetti, published by Colnaghi & Co, after Richard Cosway
stipple engraving, published 1 June 1790
8 in. x 5 7/8 in. (202 mm x 149 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D13804

Sitterback to top

Luigi Marchesi (1755-1829), Italian male soprano. Sitter in 3 portraits.

Artistsback to top

Colnaghi & Co (active 1790-1794), Publishers. Artist associated with 4 portraits.
Richard Cosway (1742-1821), Miniature painter. Artist associated with 98 portraits, Sitter in 16 portraits.
Luigi Schiavonetti (1765-1810), Printmaker. Artist associated with 24 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.

Related worksback to top

NPG D14219: Luigi Marchesi (from same plate)

Linked publicationsback to top

Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 517

Placesback to top

Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (127 Sloane Street, London; 132 Pall Mall, London)

Portrait setback to top

Macdonnell Collection

Subjects & Themesback to top

Events of 1790back to top

Current affairs

Attempts to modify the Test and Corporation Acts are defeated, despite campaigning by dissenters such as the prominent Unitarian preacher and pamphleteer, Richard Price. The Acts prevented those outside the established church from holding government or military office.

Art and science

Joseph Mallord William Turner exhibits his first painting at the Royal Academy; a watercolour of The Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth.
The Firth to Clyde and Oxford to Birmingham canals are begun.

International

Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France. A landmark work of opposition to the Revolution which offered a critique of the radical philosophy behind events in France; the Reflections have been read as an articulation of the foundations of modern British conservatism. George Vancouver explores the north west coast of America.

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