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Tory statesman. In office almost continuously for thirty years as Foreign Secretary under Addington (1801–1803), was Home Secretary under Pitt (1804) and rose to be Prime Minister from 1812–1827. Leading an unusually balanced Tory Cabinet, he steered his administration through the Napoleonic Wars and their turbulent aftermath in the 1820s when there was intense popular agitation in Britain. Lawrence's portrait depicts the rising statesman next to a bas-relief of his hero, Demosthenes, the great Athenian orator. The image was engraved in 1801 when he was Foreign Secretary about to negotiate the Peace of Amiens (1802). Succeeding his father as Lord Liverpool in 1808, he strengthened the British economy and encouraged the liberal policies of Canning, Huskisson and Peel.
Title
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Date
1790s
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 127 x W 101.6 cm
Accession number
6307
Acquisition method
Accepted in lieu of tax by HM Government and allocated to the Gallery, 1994
Work type
Painting
National Portrait Gallery, London
St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England
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