Lavinia Spencer (née Bingham), Countess Spencer
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Lavinia Spencer (née Bingham), Countess Spencer
by Bonnefoy, published by Emanuel Matthew Diemar, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
stipple engraving, published 21 February 1787 (1785-1786)
11 1/8 in. x 8 7/8 in. (283 mm x 225 mm) paper size
Bequeathed by (Frederick) Leverton Harris, 1927
Reference Collection
NPG D14776
Sitterback to top
- Lavinia Spencer (née Bingham), Countess Spencer (1762-1831), Society hostess; wife of 2nd Earl Spencer. Sitter in 12 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 3 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Bonnefoy. Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.
- Emanuel Matthew Diemar (1720-1795). Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.
- Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), Painter and first President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 1425 portraits, Sitter associated with 40 portraits.
Events of 1787back to top
Current affairs
Social reformers Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in London with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.George III shows first signs of mental instability in November.
Art and science
Painter Robert Barker takes out a patent on the Panorama..Astronomer William Herschel discovers the two moons of Uranus, Titania and Oberon.
The original Lord's Cricket Ground holds its first cricket match.
International
Captain William Bligh sets sail for Tahiti on The Bounty.First performance of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni at the National Theatre, Prague.
A British ship lands a party of freed slaves as the first modern settlers in Sierra Leone.
Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
Bahamas become a British colony.
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