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John Wolcot
12 of 42 portraits by Charles Howard Hodges
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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John Wolcot
by Charles Howard Hodges, published by T. Smith, after John Opie
mezzotint, published 13 April 1787
15 in. x 11 in. (381 mm x 280 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1862
Reference Collection
NPG D4859
Sitterback to top
- John Wolcot (1738-1819), 'Peter Pindar'; physician and satirist. Sitter associated with 8 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Charles Howard Hodges (1764-1837), Portrait painter and mezzotint engraver. Artist or producer associated with 42 portraits.
- John Opie (1761-1807), Portrait and history painter. Artist or producer associated with 151 portraits, Sitter in 13 portraits.
- T. Smith (active 1787), Publisher. Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 494
Events of 1787back to top
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Social reformers Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in London with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.George III shows first signs of mental instability in November.
Art and science
Painter Robert Barker takes out a patent on the Panorama..Astronomer William Herschel discovers the two moons of Uranus, Titania and Oberon.
The original Lord's Cricket Ground holds its first cricket match.
International
Captain William Bligh sets sail for Tahiti on The Bounty.First performance of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni at the National Theatre, Prague.
A British ship lands a party of freed slaves as the first modern settlers in Sierra Leone.
Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
Bahamas become a British colony.
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