John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, 1819
29 3/4 in. x 25 1/8 in. (756 mm x 638 mm)
Bequeathed by Georgiana Bloomfield, 1905
Primary Collection
NPG 1408
Sitterback to top
- John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield (1802-1879), Diplomat. Sitter in 4 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), Portrait painter, collector and President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 696 portraits, Sitter in 25 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Levey, Michael, Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1979 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 9 November 1979 - 16 March 1980)
- Ormond, Richard, Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, p. 42
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 61
Events of 1819back to top
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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