Painting by William Beechey
Portrait of Henry Addington portrait painting by the English artist William Beechey depicting the then British prime minister Henry Addington .
Addington succeeded William Pitt the Younger in 1801. Following the breakdown over the Peace of Amiens he led Britain in the early Napoleonic Wars and was faced with a threatened French invasion . In 1804, he was replaced by Pitt who returned to the premiership. In 1805, Addington rejoined the government and was made Viscount Sidmouth . From 1812 to 1822, he served as Home Secretary .
Beechey, a member of the Royal Academy , was a prominent portraitist of the Regency era . Today the work is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London , having been acquired in 1985.[ 3]
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Fedorak, Charles John (2002). Henry Addington, Prime Minister, 1801–1804: Peace, War, and Parliamentary Politics . University of Akron Press. ISBN 978-1-884836-83-1 Roberts, William (1907). Sir William Beechey, R. A. Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, eds. (2004). Complete Illustrated Catalogue: National Portrait Gallery, London . National Portrait Gallery. ISBN 978-1-903942-00-0 Taylor, David Francis (2018). The Politics of Parody: A Literary History of Caricature, 1760–1830 ISBN 978-0-300-23559-3
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