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Edward Daniel Clarke

12 of 75 portraits by Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave)

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Edward Daniel Clarke

by Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave), after John Opie
etching, (1807)
8 7/8 in. x 6 7/8 in. (226 mm x 174 mm) plate size; 12 3/4 in. x 9 1/2 in. (323 mm x 242 mm) paper size
Purchased, 1963
Reference Collection
NPG D22565

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  • John Opie (1761-1807), Portrait and history painter. Artist or producer associated with 151 portraits, Sitter in 13 portraits.
  • Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave) (1774-1850), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 75 portraits, Sitter associated with 3 portraits.

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Current affairs

Act is passed abolishing the British slave trade after vigorous campaigning by hundreds of thousands of people led by Thomas Clarkson and championed in parliament by reformer William Wilberforce.
Resignation of 'Ministry of all the Talents'. Whig politician William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of Portland, succeeds as Prime Minister.

Art and science

Thomas Hope publishes Household Furniture and Interior Decoration; influential in promoting Greek and especially Egyptian models as the epitome of fashionable style.

International

French invasion of Spain and Portugal.
Britain occupies Copenhagen and captures the Danish fleet.
Napoleon begins to wage an economic battle against Britain, recognising the impossibility of victory at sea because of Britain's superior naval power. He aims to close the entire European coastline to British trade.

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