Chevalier d'Eon
77 of 204 portraits matching these criteria:
- set matching 'Wheatley's London (vol 3, part 3)'
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Chevalier d'Eon
by Thomas Chambers (Chambars), published by Benjamin Beale Evans, after Richard Cosway
stipple engraving, published 12 July 1787 (1787)
6 7/8 in. x 4 1/2 in. (175 mm x 114 mm) plate size; 9 1/4 in. x 6 5/8 in. (235 mm x 169 mm) paper size
Given by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt, 1913
Reference Collection
NPG D20293
Sitterback to top
- Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d'Eon de Beaumont (1728-1810), Cross-dressing diplomat, soldier and celebrity fencer. Sitter in 24 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Thomas Chambers (Chambars) (circa 1724-1789). Artist or producer associated with 51 portraits.
- Richard Cosway (1742-1821), Miniature painter. Artist or producer associated with 101 portraits, Sitter in 16 portraits.
- Benjamin Beale Evans (active 1783-1824), Printseller and engraver. Artist or producer associated with 9 portraits.
Events of 1787back to top
Current affairs
Social reformers Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in London with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.George III shows first signs of mental instability in November.
Art and science
Painter Robert Barker takes out a patent on the Panorama..Astronomer William Herschel discovers the two moons of Uranus, Titania and Oberon.
The original Lord's Cricket Ground holds its first cricket match.
International
Captain William Bligh sets sail for Tahiti on The Bounty.First performance of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni at the National Theatre, Prague.
A British ship lands a party of freed slaves as the first modern settlers in Sierra Leone.
Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
Bahamas become a British colony.
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