Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
1 portrait by George Smeeton
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
by Robert Cooper, published by George Smeeton, after W. Walton
stipple and line engraving, published 1 February 1819
14 1/4 in. x 10 3/4 in. (363 mm x 274 mm) paper size
Given by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt, 1913
Reference Collection
NPG D19597
Sitterback to top
- Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775-1860), Admiral. Sitter associated with 8 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Robert Cooper (active 1795-died 1828), Historical and portrait engraver. Artist or producer associated with 195 portraits.
- George Smeeton (active 1800-1828), Printer and publisher. Artist or producer associated with 43 portraits.
- W. Walton (active 1819), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.
Events of 1819back to top
Current affairs
Peterloo Massacre leaves eleven dead and four hundred wounded as crowds, gathered to hear radical Henry Hunt call for reform of the House of Commons, are forcibly dispersed.Six Acts are passed, stiffening the 1795 Treason Act and introducing a tax on the periodical press which was viewed as seditious.
Art and science
Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Ode to the West Wind during a year of extraordinary creativity in which he also finishes Prometheus Unbound.Lord Byron publishes his tour-de-force Don Juan; one man's mock-epic odyssey through a world without fixed principles.
First ship with a steam engine crosses the Atlantic in twenty-eight days.
International
Thomas Jefferson establishes the University of Virginia.Royal Navy anti-slave squadron is set up to patrol the West African coastline.
French physician Rene Laennac invents the stethoscope.
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