William Pitt the Younger, English statesman Finish:Stretched George IV is wearing Highland

George IV is wearing Highland dress and kneeling at the feet of Lady Hell-fling-stone

both sides in the American Civil War were struggling for men and money

French Rococo engravings and Japonisme

Penelope Keith plays Barbara Good

William Pitt the Younger, English statesman Finish:Stretched George IV is wearing HighlandWilliam Pitt the Younger, English statesman, 1781 (1912). Painted on paper. This commemorates his famous speech in favour of ending the American War of Independence, which he made in 1780 when 21 years of age. It is possibly the earliest portrait of him. A print from One Hundred Silhouette Portraits, Horace Hart, at the University of Oxford.