George Wade
© National Portrait Gallery, London
George Wade
by, published by and sold by John Faber Jr, after Johan van Diest
mezzotint, published 1736 (circa 1731)
14 1/8 in. x 10 in. (358 mm x 255 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D37967
Artistsback to top
- John Faber Jr (circa 1695-1756), Engraver and portrait and miniature painter. Artist or producer associated with 818 portraits.
- Johan van Diest (1695-1757), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 11 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D19164: George Wade (from same plate)
- NPG D14765: George Wade (from same plate)
- NPG 1594: George Wade (after)
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (Golden Head, Bloomsbury Square, London)
Events of 1736back to top
Current affairs
Frederick, Prince of Wales marries Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.Porteous Riots in Edinburgh after the execution of smuggler Andrew Wilson. Captain John Porteous orders his men to fire into the mob, causing six deaths. He is found guilty of murder, dragged from his cell, beaten and hung to death by a mob.
Repeal of laws against witchcraft.
Gin Act attempts to curtail consumption of gin.
Art and science
Posthumous publication of Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions, describing his method of differential calculus.One of the earliest recorded uses of a Bathing Machine at Scarborough.
International
Methodist preachers John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia.Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates the throne.
Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler produces the first published proof of Fermat's little theorem concerning prime numbers.
Charles Marie de La Condamine and François Fresneau Gataudière make the first scientific observations of rubber in Ecuador.
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