Harriet Hampden-Trevor (née Burton), Viscountess Hampden
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Harriet Hampden-Trevor (née Burton), Viscountess Hampden
by Unknown artist
cut-paper silhouette with pen and ink additions, laid down on pre-printed etched background, with pencil inscription, 1790
7 5/8 in. x 5 1/4 in. (195 mm x 132 mm) plate size; 8 in. x 5 3/8 in. (202 mm x 138 mm) paper size
Bequeathed by (Frederick) Leverton Harris, 1927
Reference Collection
NPG D15853
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- Harriet Hampden-Trevor (née Burton), Viscountess Hampden (1750-1829), Wife of John Hampden-Trevor, 3rd Viscount Hampden. Sitter associated with 1 portrait.
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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.Comments back to top
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