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Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey

by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
chalk, circa 1802
18 3/4 in. x 13 7/8 in. (476 mm x 353 mm)
Given by William Overend, 1882
Primary Collection
NPG 654

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This drawing was probably made the year Chantrey terminated his apprenticeship and set up a studio in Sheffield 'taking portraits in crayon and miniatures', and before he had access to the camera lucida. He had been taught to use pastel and chalks by his friend, the artist John Raphael Smith, who also introduced him to the radical John Horne Tooke, Chantrey's first important subject. On moving to London, Chantrey chose to focus on sculpture.

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  • Rogers, Malcolm, Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, 1993 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 August to 23 October 1994), p. 84
  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 114
  • Walker, Richard, Regency Portraits, 1985, p. 103

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Current affairs

After returning from Naples, Nelson tours England with the diplomat and antiquarian Sir William Hamilton and his wife Emma, with whom he was having an affair. With Nelson's status confirmed as a national hero, their reception outrivals that of the King.
Extensive strikes in government shipyards led by John Gast.

Art and science

Francis Jeffrey, MP and arbiter of literary taste, co-founds the Edinburgh Review, the influential Whig quarterly which voiced strong criticism of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey.
The Exchange, where stocks were traded, is rebuilt to cope with an increase in business during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

International

Peace of Amiens; Britain finally agrees to unpopular peace, leaving France the chief power in Europe and returning recent British colonial acquisitions.
Napoleon is declared First Consul of the French Empire for life.
English flock to see the international war plunder now on display at the Louvre in Paris.

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