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![]() | Charles Pepys, 1st Earl Of Cottenham by Charles Robert Leslie exhibited 1840 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Leslie, Charles Robert | |
![]() | Sir John Everett Millais by Charles Robert Leslie 1852 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Leslie, Charles Robert | |
| William Cobbett by George Cooke circa 1831 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Cooke, George | ![]() This portrait is said to show Cobbett in the clothes he wore when tried for sedition in 1831. Considered a popular hero after his acquittal, Cobbett was elected to the reformed House of Commons, for the newly created borough of Oldham, in 1832. | |
![]() | Matthew Gregory Lewis by George Lethbridge Saunders watercolour on ivory National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Saunders, George Lethbridge | |
![]() | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney by Henry Benbridge c. 1773 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Benbridge, Henry | ![]() Charles Cotesworth Pinckney posed for his portrait around 1773 in the red coat (traces of which remain) of the Charles Town colonial militia. By 1775, despite formative years spent in England, Pinckney was an enthusiastic rebel. He asked artist Henry Benbridge to repaint the uniform, showing him as a captain in the second South Carolina regiment... |
![]() | Richard Cobden by Joseph Fagnani 1865 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Fagnani, Joseph | ![]() Richard Cobden, the radical statesman and advocate of free trade, worked as a clerk and commercial traveller before establishing a successful calico printing business in 1828. He helped found Anti-Corn Law League in 1838, campaigned tirelessly for the repeal of the Corn Laws, and was closely associated with John Bright in his free trade principles... |
![]() | William Bulwer, Baron Dalling And Bulwer by Joseph Fagnani 1865 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Fagnani, Joseph | ![]() Bulwer joined the British Army in 1825 and entered the diplomatic service two years later. In 1838, he negotiated the Ponsonby Treaty with Turkey, which secured important advantages for British trade in the Ottoman Empire. He was appointed Ambassador to Spain in 1843 but his sympathies with the cause of Spanish constitutionalism led to his expulsion... |
![]() | Eleazar Williams by Joseph Fagnani 1853 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Fagnani, Joseph | |
![]() | Elisha Kent Kane by Joseph Fagnani 1857 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Fagnani, Joseph | ![]() Elisha Kent Kane (28 February 1820 – 16 February 1857) was a medical officer in the United States Navy during the first half of the 19th century. He was a member of two Arctic expeditions to rescue the explorer Sir John Franklin. He was present at the discovery of Sir John Franklin's first winter camp, but he did not find out what had happened to... |
![]() | Portrait Of Henry Angelo by Mather Brown ca. 1790 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Brown, Mather |
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