Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844)

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Downing Street

John Singleton Copley was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Irish immigrants, who owned a tobacco shop. His father died when he was a young and his mother later married English artist and schoolteacher Peter Pelham. Pelham may have introduced Copley to Scottish émigré and artist John Smibert, whose studio he visited regularly. In 1766, Copley sent the painting ‘Boy with a Squirrel’ to the Society of Artists in London, where it was praised by Benjamin West. In 1769, he married Susannah Farnham, with whom he had five children. Encouraged by West, Copley relocated to London in 1774, living in Soho and later in Westminster. He had a moderately successful career in London, painting mainly history and portrait subjects. He died aged 77.

People

Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth Addington (1757 - 1844)

Places

Subjects

quill, ink pot/ink stand, topography, male portrait, 19th century costume, chancellor's robe, college, chancellor, Viscount, Prime Minister, university, window, curtain, carpet, chair, table (as Subject), educational interior

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

John Singleton Copley (1738 - 1815)
Robert Dunkarton (1744 - 1811?)

Title

Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844)

Date

published May 1802

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Bequeathed by Sir Edward Walter Hamilton, 1908

Provenance

Bequeathed to 10 Downing Street by Sir Edward Walter Hamilton, 1908

GAC number

0/20/23