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Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope

15 of 19 portraits by William Haines

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Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope

by Samuel William Reynolds, after William Haines
mezzotint, 1819 or after
19 7/8 in. x 13 7/8 in. (506 mm x 354 mm) plate size; 20 1/2 in. x 14 1/2 in. (521 mm x 369 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1956
Reference Collection
NPG D13646

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  • William Haines (1778-1848), Engraver and painter. Artist or producer associated with 19 portraits.
  • Samuel William Reynolds (1773-1835), Mezzotint engraver and painter. Artist or producer associated with 639 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.

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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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Elaine Gregg

05 July 2020, 22:33

In 1852 he was the Vice-president of the Society of Arts.