867341

Portrait of Charles James Fox 1749 -1806 #867341

Currency:USD Category:Pottery & Glass / Glass Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:0.00 USD
Portrait of Charles James Fox 1749 -1806   #867341
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
<tr>
<td><em>
</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%">
Charles James Fox was born on 24 January 1749 and was the third son of Henry Fox, first Lord Holland and his wife Lady Caroline Lennox, daughter of the second Duke of Richmond. This made Fox the nephew of the third Duke of Richmond, a leading Rockingham Whig peer. Fox was educated at Eton and Hertford College, Oxford. His father exerted little control over Fox and encouraged him to be extravagant and dissolute. Fox lost vast sums at gambling, and in 1774 Lord Holland paid his son's gambling debts at a cost of £140,000. Almost 20 years later political friends paid off Fox's debts and gave him a comfortable income. Fox subsequently gave up both racing and gambling. Fox was Falstaffian in character and none too clean in appearance. He was openly a rake and there were rumours that he was conducting an affair with Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.

In 1768 he became MP for Midhurst, a family pocket borough. He was only 20 years old and MPs could not take their seats until they were 21, so he was under the legal age to sit in parliament. Fox immediately attracted attention through his ability and the quality of his speeches. In 1770 he was appointed as a junior Lord of the Admiralty but resigned in 1772 so that he could oppose the legislation that became the Royal Marriages Act in the same year. In December 1773 he became a junior Lord of the Treasury but the king, who disliked Fox for opposing the Royal Marriages Act, dismissed him in February 1774.

Edmund Burke and Fox became friends ...
<a href="http://www.goantiques.com/liveauction/complete_description.jsp?id=1250717" target=_new><b>View Complete Description</b></a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Reference
#: 2686</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Condition:Overall good condition</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:circa 1785</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:After Sir Joshua Reynolds</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:30.</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:25</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Portrait of Charles James Fox 1749 -1806 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:18th Century School</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on canvas.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Oil on canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
</table>