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The Whig MP and Judge Denman held the post of Attorney General (1830) and drafted the Reform Bill of 1832. Success at the Bar came slowly and he supplemented his income by literary journalism for the Monthly Review, a Whig magazine. His eloquent defence of Luddites, charged with high treason in 1817, confirmed his liberal principles and brought him to the attention of the Whig aristocracy. In 1819 he took a seat in the House of Commons and was a keen critic of the government's repressive legislation and a supporter of anti-slavery. This portrait was probably done in 1819, the year before Denman and Henry Brougham became popular liberal heroes while defending Queen Caroline at her 'trial' in 1820. Denman was eventually rewarded for his service, being appointed Lord Chief Justice in 1832.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman

Date

exhibited 1819

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 76.2 x W 63.5 cm

Accession number

372

Acquisition method

Given by John Herman Merivale, 1873

Work type

Painting

National Portrait Gallery, London

St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England

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Artist or maker

John James Halls

1776–1853

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