George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney

1 portrait by Henry Hudson

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George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney

by Henry Hudson, published by Thomas Simpson, after Mather Brown
mezzotint, published 21 September 1790
15 in. x 11 in. (381 mm x 278 mm) plate size; 16 3/8 in. x 12 3/8 in. (415 mm x 315 mm) paper size
Given by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt, 1913
Reference Collection
NPG D19195

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  • Mather Brown (1761-1831), Portrait and history painter. Artist or producer associated with 29 portraits.
  • Henry Hudson (1763-1795), Mezzotint engraver. Artist or producer associated with 10 portraits.
  • Thomas Simpson (active 1765-1799), Print publisher. Artist or producer associated with 7 portraits.

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  • NPG D13744: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (from same plate)

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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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