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Statesman; a close supporter of Pitt with great experience of Scottish affairs and the government of India. He was Home Secretary (1791–1794), and took over the new office of Secretary of War (1794), subsequently organising the successful Egyptian campaign of 1801 against the opinion of both Pitt and the King. His career came to an end as First Lord of the Admiralty (1804), when he was impeached for financial mismanagement during his earlier term as Treasurer of the Navy (1782–1800), and narrowly acquitted. Henry Dundas was a leading figure in Edinburgh intellectual circles and a close political associate of William Pitt. He was instrumental in the passage of Pitt's India Act (1784) which aimed to remove political control from the hands of the East India Company, the trading company who effectively ruled Britain's Asian territories.
Title
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Date
c.1810
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 74.9 x W 62.2 cm
Accession number
746
Acquisition method
Purchased, 1885
Work type
Painting
