Richard Bentley

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Richard Bentley

after Sir James Thornhill
oil on canvas, based on a work of 1710
50 in. x 40 1/4 in. (1270 mm x 1022 mm)
Purchased, 1890
Primary Collection
NPG 851

Sitterback to top

  • Richard Bentley (1662-1742), Classical scholar; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Sitter in 3 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • Sir James Thornhill (1675 or 1676-1734), Father-in-law of William Hogarth, decorative painter and politician; MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. Artist or producer associated with 23 portraits, Sitter associated with 14 portraits.

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Events of 1710back to top

Current affairs

Clergyman Henry Sacheverell is impeached on account of his sermons in which he attacks the Whig government and the revolution settlement of 1688-9. The trial caused rioting, and revived Jacobites sentiments and resentment against the government.
Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, returns to Parliament as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Art and science

The Examiner, a Tory government propaganda journal devised by Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford and Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, is published. Under its editor, Jonathan Swift, the weekly sheet defended the policies of the new Tory government. The Whigs responded with The Medley, principally written by Arthur Maynwaring.

International

Following the victories at the Battles of Almenara and Saragossa in the War of the Spanish Succession, the allied forces experience a set back at the Battle of Brihuega during which, James Stanhope, Earl of Stanhope, Commander in Chief of the British Forces in Spain, is taken prisoner.

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