English School. Portrait miniature of Charles James Fox (1749-1806), circa 1790, oval watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, shown with powdered hair, brown coat and white neckcloth, gilt frame with eye-hook and card backing with various ink markings, 6 cm (2.25 ins) (Qty: 1) Fox was a prominent British Whig statesman and arch-rival of the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger. He served as Britain's first Foreign Secretary during the ministry of the Marquess of Rockingham in 1782, returning to the post in 1783 under Lord North. He subsequently spent the following 22 years facing Pitt and the government from the opposition benches of the House of Commons. He became noted as an anti-slavery campaigner, a supporter of the French Revolution and a leading parliamentary advocate of religious tolerance and individual liberty.
English School. Portrait miniature of Charles James Fox (1749-1806), circa 1790, oval watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, shown with powdered hair, brown coat and white neckcloth, gilt frame with eye-hook and card backing with various ink markings, 6 cm (2.25 ins) (Qty: 1) Fox was a prominent British Whig statesman and arch-rival of the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger. He served as Britain's first Foreign Secretary during the ministry of the Marquess of Rockingham in 1782, returning to the post in 1783 under Lord North. He subsequently spent the following 22 years facing Pitt and the government from the opposition benches of the House of Commons. He became noted as an anti-slavery campaigner, a supporter of the French Revolution and a leading parliamentary advocate of religious tolerance and individual liberty.
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