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Charles James Fox

Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

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Whig statesman and opponent of Pitt the younger. Reckless in politics as at the gaming tables, Fox held office briefly as a Tory under Lord North but soon switched sides leading the opposition through a long political life. He championed the French revolutionary cause, America, Ireland, reform and George, Prince of Wales. A supporter of the revolutionary cause in France, his credibility was diminished from 1792 by the excesses of the French revolutionaries. In his younger days, Fox had been identified with the 'Macaroni' fashions of the 1760s and 1770s, characterised by ostentatious dress and wigs. By the early 1780s, the trend for male dress was towards a more sober, informal style. One of the first to initiate this change, Fox began to appear in public unshaven, unpowdered and in the blue coat and breeches of the American revolutionaries.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Charles James Fox

Date

1794

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 132.1 x W 113 cm

Accession number

743

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1885

Work type

Painting

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