Louis Lazare Hoche
1 portrait by François Bonneville
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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Louis Lazare Hoche
possibly by François Bonneville
stipple engraving, circa 1795-1796
7 3/4 in. x 5 7/8 in. (195 mm x 148 mm) plate size; 11 3/4 in. x 8 1/2 in. (297 mm x 215 mm) paper size
Bequeathed by (Frederick) Leverton Harris, 1927
Reference Collection
NPG D15565
Artistback to top
- François Bonneville (active 1787-1802), Painter and draughtsman. Artist or producer associated with 12 portraits.
Events of 1795back to top
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George, Prince of Wales is forced to marry Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick, despite having secretly married Maria Fitzherbert in 1785.Widespread rioting prompts the introduction of the Speenhamland system of welfare supplements which are linked to the price of bread.
Treasonable Practices Act is passed against open criticism of government.
Art and science
The MP Matthew Gregory 'Monk' Lewis publishes his notorious gothic novel The Monk to success and scandal because of its immoral content.Mungo Park explores the course of the River Niger.
International
Wolfe Tone, founder of The Society of United Irishmen, departs for America after being implicated in high treason in Ireland. Exiled in Philadelphia, he soon leaves for France to ask revolutionaries for assistance.Joseph Haydn composes the English Canzonettas during his second stay in London.
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Chris Measures
16 April 2018, 16:02
This is certainly not from 1787. Hoche was a mere corporal in 1789 at the start of the French Revolution. He became commander in chief of the armies referred to in the work early in 1795 and moved on to other commands in August 1796 so it would be logical to date it to this period.
Portraits of Hoche are wildly varying in their depiction of his features but this one is the oddest of them all and bears little resemblance to the work by Boze usually cited as the one he actually sat for. In no other work is he shown with any facial hair apart from long sideburns.