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Self-Portrait, 1880-1885

by Cecilia Beaux

1880-1885
Oil on canvas
45.72 cm (18 in.), Width: 35.56 cm (14 in.)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Beaux, Cecilia 
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

by Henry Benbridge

c. 1773
oil on canvas
76.7 x 64 x 3.8cm (30 3/16 x 25 3/16 x 1 1/2")

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Benbridge, Henrynotes
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
oil on canvas
77.5 x 64.8 cm (30.5 x 25.5 in)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Brown, Mather 
Sir Francis Buller

by Mather Brown

1792
oil on canvas
49 1/4 in. x 39 in. (1251 mm x 991 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Brown, Mather 
Portrait Of Sir George Yonge

by Mather Brown

1 May 1790
stipple engraving
10 1/2 in. x 8 in. (268 mm x 204 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Brown, Mather 
John Howard

by Mather Brown

1789
oil on canvas
30 in. x 24 3/4 in. (761 mm x 628 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Brown, Mather 
William Cobbett

by George Cooke

circa 1831
oil on canvas
36 in. x 28 in. (914 mm x 711 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Cooke, Georgenotes
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
oil on canvas
40 1/4 in. x 31 3/4 in. (1022 mm x 806 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Fagnani, Josephnotes
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
oil on canvas
30 in. x 25 in. (762 mm x 635 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Fagnani, Josephnotes
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
oil on canvas
75.5cm x 63cm (29 3/4" x 24 13/16")

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Fagnani, Joseph 
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