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Nathaniel Hooke
1 of 36 portraits by Bartholomew Dandridge
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Nathaniel Hooke
by Bartholomew Dandridge
oil on canvas, 1720s or 1730s
49 1/2 in. x 39 1/2 in. (1257 mm x 1003 mm)
Given by Lord Boston, 1859
Primary Collection
NPG 68
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- Bartholomew Dandridge (1691-circa 1754), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 36 portraits.
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The identification as Nathaniel Hooke rests on provenance. The portrait was presented to the National Portrait Gallery in 1859 by George 4th Baron Boston, whose grandfather, Frederick, the 2nd Baron, a personal friend of Hooke, erected the tablet to him in Hedsor church in 1801. The portrait is signed on the masonry, bottom left: B Dandridge Pinxit. More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian Portraits (1977, out of print).
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- Kerslake, John, Early Georgian Portraits, 1977, p. 151
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 312
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Collapse of the South Sea Company's shares causes financial crisis in London and ruins many investors. Their rapid inflation and the speculation mania it had encouraged become known as the South Sea Bubble. Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend returns to the Whig ministry. Robert Walpole 1st Earl of Orford, who had resigned in 1717, also returns and restores public credit in December.Art and science
Entrepreneur Ralph Allen is appointed to take over the Cross and Bye Posts, which manage mail not going via London, leading to his eventual reform of the entire British postal system.History painter James Thornhill is appointed Serjeant Painter to the King and becomes the first British artist to receive a knighthood.
International
Treaty of the Hague signed between Britain, France, Austria, the Dutch Republic and Spain ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance.In Lhasa, the Dalai Lama accepts Chinese imperial protection, which lasts until 1911.
Two political parties emerge in Sweden's parliament and become known as the Hats and the Caps.
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