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![]() | Self-Portrait, 1880-1885 by Cecilia Beaux 1880-1885 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Beaux, Cecilia | |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | Portrait Of Henry Angelo by Mather Brown ca. 1790 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Brown, Mather | |
![]() | Sir Francis Buller by Mather Brown 1792 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Brown, Mather | |
![]() | Portrait Of Sir George Yonge by Mather Brown 1 May 1790 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Brown, Mather | |
![]() | John Howard by Mather Brown 1789 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Brown, Mather | |
| 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. | |
![]() | 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 |
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