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'It is impossible to collect the suffrages of all parties; the nature and education and various and clashing interests of men deny it. He who attempts to be a universal favourite will forfeit the respect of all.'

#ConductInAMinisterialCapacity

#19thCentury #Georgian

'I do not advise him to purchase the silence or the support of brawlers; or to pension those diurnal vassals of the press who subsist by their petulance and scandal."

#ConductInAMinisterialCapacity
#19thCentury #Georgian

(Img of George Ensor: British Museum collection)

I've been reading the section 'Conduct in a Ministerial Capacity' from George Ensor's 1806 book 'The Independent Man.'

There's some great (and maybe still relevant?) observations, so I'm going to tweet them under the hashtag #ConductInAMinisterialCapacity.

#georgian #regency

No discussion of Castlereagh portraits would be complete without mention of his many portrayals in political satire of the era. In 1820, George Cruikshank did a stylized portrait of Castlereagh as 'Derry Down Triangle' in Hone's pamphlet 'A Political Lecture on Heads.' 7/

French artist Jean-Baptiste Isabey, often termed the 'official' artist of the Congress of Vienna, did a portrait miniature of Castlereagh in 1814 (L) partly as a study for his much larger official portrayal of the major players at the peace negotiations (R). 6/

About 5 years later, now representing an Irish seat in Britain's House of Commons, Castlereagh was campaigning (ultimately unsuccessfully) to keep his home seat of Down in 1805. An observer did a quick, amateur sketch of Castlereagh (centre) while at a campaign event. 4/

Thomas Lawrence painted his first of 4 portraits of Castlereagh in 1794. The portrait, striking for its dark, drama, shows Castlereagh as a serious young man with a focused gaze at around the time that his parliamentary career was beginning. 2/

#OTD (June 18th) 1769, Robert Stewart, #ViscountCastlereagh is born.

I thought I'd take the opportunity to do a rough chronology of Castlereagh's life in official and unofficial portraiture, starting with a brilliant swagger portrait by Daniel Gardner, done c.1788. (Thread 1/ )

Me, running away from this week:

For the last #WellingtonWednesday before Halloween, a ghostly vision.

In Isaac Cruikshank's caricature 'A Vision of Judgement' (c1829), Wellington is haunted by a vision of Charon rowing three ghostly figures across the River Styx (a reference to Dante's 'Inferno').

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