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Denham was a soldier who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was decorated with the Waterloo medal. In 1821 he volunteered to join one of several expeditions, sent by the British government, to explore the African interior. After difficulties with the Pasha of Tripoli, and weakened by malaria, the expedition struggled across the Sahara to become the first Europeans to see Lake Chad in 1823. Phillips's portrait was probably commissioned by Denham's publisher John Murray for his gallery of literary celebrities. It was used as the frontispiece to Denham's account of the expedition published in 1826. In the same year Denham was appointed 'superintendent of liberated Africans' in Sierra Leone – the colony for freed slaves that Britain had established in 1808.
Title
Dixon Denham
Date
1826
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 76.2 x W 63.5 cm
Accession number
2441
Acquisition method
Given by John Murray, 1929
Work type
Painting
National Portrait Gallery, London
St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England
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