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Probably Thomas Greene

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Probably Thomas Greene

by George Romney
oil on canvas, circa 1762-1763
16 3/4 in. x 14 1/2 in. (425 mm x 368 mm)
Given by Sir George Scharf, 1894
Primary Collection
NPG 972

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  • Thomas Greene (1737-1810), Attorney and patron of George Romney. Sitter associated with 1 portrait.

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  • George Romney (1734-1802), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 173 portraits, Sitter in 5 portraits.

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Current affairs

Birth of George, Prince of Wales (later George IV) on 12 August.
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle resigns as Prime Minister over foreign policy and is succeeded by the Tory John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. Many of Newcastle's followers are dismissed over the following months in what becomes popularly known as the 'Massacre of the Pelhamite Innocents'.
'Cock Lane ghost' appears in Smithfield, London.

Art and science

James MacPherson publishes Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem, said to be the work of the third century Scottish bard Ossian, initiating the greatest literary hoax of the century.
Sign-Painters Exhibition is organised in London by Bonnell Thornton to ridicule recently established public art exhibitions.
Artist William Hogarth publishes The Times Plate 1; an anti-war satire.

International

Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau publishes his major works The Social Contract and Emile; influential treatises on society and education. Peter III of Russia is reputedly assassinated as a result of a conspiracy led by his wife Catherine, who succeeds him to the throne as Catherine II (later the Great).
Seven Years' War: The British commander John Manners Marquess of Granby distinguishes himself at the Battle of Manila.

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Scott Thomas

05 June 2016, 11:47

I have lately been reading William Cowper (http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw01541/William-Cowper?LinkID=mp01072&search=sas&sText=cowper&role=sit&rNo=2) and was interested in the Romney portrait. However, in the PDF file of the Oxford Edition of Cowper's complete poetical works (https://archive.org/download/completepoetical00cow/completepoetical00cow.pdf) the portrait of Cowper "From the picture in the National Portrait Gallery, ascribed to Romney" is this portrait which you have identified as Thomas Greene. Other sources, such as the New York Public Library, reference Cowper as the sitter for that portrait, but also credit the National Portrait Gallery (http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-305e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99, for example). I am therefore uncertain if this is Greene or Cowper.