James Edward Oglethorpe

1 portrait by Alfred Edmund Dyer

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James Edward Oglethorpe

by Alfred Edmund Dyer, after William Verelst
oil on panel, feigned oval, circa 1927, based on a work of circa 1735-1736
5 1/2 in. x 4 1/2 in. (140 mm x 114 mm)
Purchased, 1927
Primary Collection
NPG 2153a

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  • Alfred Edmund Dyer (active 1927), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
  • William Verelst (died after 1756), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.

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A copy made in about 1927 from the whole length standing figure of Oglethorpe in the group, 'The Georgia Council', by William Verelst, c.1735-36, formerly in the Shaftesbury family collection, and now belonging to the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. More detailed information on this portrait is available in a National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue, John Kerslake's Early Georgian Portraits (1977, out of print).

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Current affairs

Second Parliament under George III. Robert Walpole maintains a substantial majority. Lord Bolingbroke gives up active opposition to Walpole and retires to France. Walpole moves into 10 Downing Street.
Welsh Methodist revival begins.

Art and science

Celebrated dandy Richard 'Beau' Nash appoints himself Master of Ceremonies at Tunbridge Wells.
William Hogarth founds the second St Martin's Lane Academy of Painting.
Lawyer and amateur meteorologist George Hadley publishes the first explanation of the trade winds


International

Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus publishes a 'system of nature', capable of classifying all living things.
Swedish chemist Georg Brandt discovers a new metallic element, which he names cobalt.
A revivalist movement in America, led by Jonathan Edwards, becomes known as the Great Awakening.
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach debuts his Ascension Oratorio in Leipzig.

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