Lord Thomas Miller Glenlee
1 portrait by D. Blackmore Pyet
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Lord Thomas Miller Glenlee
by D. Blackmore Pyet, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 1793
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D2781
Sitterback to top
- Lord Thomas Miller Glenlee (1717-1789), Lord President of the Court of Session. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Artistsback to top
- D. Blackmore Pyet. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
- 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 1793back to top
Current affairs
Whig MP Charles Grey enters a motion for parliamentary reform but is defeated in the House of Commons.Art and science
Radical philosopher William Godwin publishes Political Justice, an inflamatory document that promoted rational anarchism. This crystallised a wider feeling that a new era of world peace and progress was beginning.Sir William Beechey is appointed Portrait Painter to her Majesty, Queen Charlotte.
International
Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are executed and the Reign of Terror begins.France declares war on Britain, Holland and then Spain. William Pitt addresses the House of Commons and Britain hesitantly joins the first coalition of anti-revolutionary European states to oppose the French threat.
Attack on Corsica in which Captain Horatio Nelson loses an eye.
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