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Philip Metcalfe

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Philip Metcalfe

by William Evans, after Edmund Scott
stipple, published 9 April 1801
10 3/4 in. x 8 3/4 in. (272 mm x 222 mm) paper size
Bequeathed by (Frederick) Leverton Harris, 1927
Reference Collection
NPG D14762

Sitterback to top

  • Philip Metcalfe (1733-1818), Distiller, collector, patron of the arts and politician; MP for Horsham, Plympton Erle and Malmesbury. Sitter in 2 portraits.

Artistsback to top

  • William Evans (active 1797-1856), Draughtsman and engraver. Artist or producer associated with 103 portraits.
  • Edmund Scott (1758-circa 1811), Engraver and draughtsman. Artist or producer associated with 21 portraits.

Events of 1801back to top

Current affairs

Wlliam Pitt and Lord Castlereagh both resign over the King's refusal to permit the introduction of Catholic emancipation. Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth succeeds Pitt as Prime Minister.
Census records 9 million people living in England and Wales, 5.2 million in Ireland and 1.6 million in Scotland.

Art and science

Radical writer, Amelia Opie publishes her best known novel The Father and the Daughter. Said to have reduced Walter Scott to tears, it went on to enjoy success as an opera and a play.

International

Other members of the First Coalition fighting France with Britain agree to a humiliating peace treaty and Britain fights on alone.
A successful campaign is fought against the French army marooned in Egypt. General Sir Ralph Abercromby leads the troops but is killed in action.
Thomas Jefferson is elected President of the United States.

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Leonard K Baddeley

17 February 2018, 15:06

The engraving of Philip Metcalfe was taken from a miniature water colour painting that has been in my family for over 90 years.

Tom Williams

07 April 2017, 11:43

We have one of these engravings and I believe that the artist is Edmund Scott not Edward Scott. My wife is a descendent of Frederika Metcalfe who was Philip Metcalfe's niece.