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Carlo Broschi ('Farinelli')

10 of 20 portraits by Alexander van Aken

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Carlo Broschi ('Farinelli')

by Alexander van Aken, after Charles Lucy
mezzotint, 1735
13 7/8 in. x 10 1/4 in. (352 mm x 260 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D825

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  • Charles Lucy (1692-circa 1736), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 3 portraits.
  • Alexander van Aken (1701-1757), Painter and engraver. Artist or producer associated with 20 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.

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  • NPG D19454: Carlo Broschi ('Farinelli') (from same plate)

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  • Perry, Gill (introduction) Roach, Joseph (appreciation) and West, Shearer (appreciation), The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons, 2011 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 20 October 2011 to 8 January 2012), p. 88

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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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