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Jeremy Taylor

2 of 23 portraits by Charles Warren

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Jeremy Taylor

by Charles Warren, after Unknown artist
line engraving, circa 1790-1823
9 1/2 in. x 6 1/2 in. (242 mm x 166 mm) plate size; 17 1/2 in. x 11 3/4 in. (445 mm x 300 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D40841

Sitterback to top

  • Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), Bishop of Down and Connor. Sitter in 30 portraits.

Artistsback to top

  • Unknown artist, Artist. Artist or producer associated with 6578 portraits.
  • Charles Warren (1766 or 1767-1823), Line engraver. Artist or producer associated with 23 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.

Events of 1790back to top

Current affairs

Attempts to modify the Test and Corporation Acts are defeated, despite campaigning by dissenters such as the prominent Unitarian preacher and pamphleteer, Richard Price. The Acts prevented those outside the established church from holding government or military office.

Art and science

Joseph Mallord William Turner exhibits his first painting at the Royal Academy; a watercolour of The Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth.
The Firth to Clyde and Oxford to Birmingham canals are begun.

International

Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France. A landmark work of opposition to the Revolution which offered a critique of the radical philosophy behind events in France; the Reflections have been read as an articulation of the foundations of modern British conservatism. George Vancouver explores the north west coast of America.

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