Portrait of Henry Addington

Portrait of Henry Addington is an 1803 portrait painting by the English artist William Beechey depicting the then British prime minister Henry Addington.

Portrait of Henry Addington
M. Addington
Artist	William Beechey
Year	c. 1803
Medium	Oil on canvas
Subject	Henry Addington
Dimensions	126.5 cm (49.8 in) × 101.5 cm (40.0 in)
Location	National Portrait Gallery, London
Accession No.	NPG 5774
Identifiers	Art UK artwork ID: henry-addington-1st-viscount-sidmouth-155197

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 in London having been acquired in 1985.

References

Bibliography

• 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. London: Duckworth and Co.
• 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. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-23559-3.

Further reading

• Ziegler, Philip (1965). Addington: A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth. London: Collins.

External links

• Media related to Henry Addington (Beechey) at Wikimedia Commons