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The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840. Benjamin Robert Haydon

Quote from the description at the National Portrait Gallery website:

This monumental painting records the 1840 convention of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society which was established to promote worldwide abolition. A frail and elderly [Thomas] Clarkson addresses a meeting of over 500 delegates. [...] Haydon later wrote: 'a liberated slave, now a delegate, is looking up to Clarkson with deep interest ... this is the point of interest in the picture, and illustrative of the object in painting it, the African sitting by the intellectual European, in equality and intelligence'.

Identified persons in this portrait (based on National Portrait Gallery description) follow. For an image map showing the location of each person in the painting, see en:Template:Anti-Slavery Society Convention 1840.

Abraham Beaumont (1782-1848)
Amelia Opie (1769-1853), Novelist and poet; second wife of John Opie
Anne Knight (1792-1868)
Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron (1792-1860), Wife of Lord Byron
B. Godwin, Baptist preacher
Charles Edwards Lester, American abolitionist
Charles Stovel, Baptist minister and abolitionist
Charles Stuart, abolitionist from Jamaica
Constantine Richard Moorsom (1792-1861), Vice-Admiral
Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor (1792 – 1879) , American abolitionist
Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), Irish politician
David Turnbull
Dr Murch
Edward Adey
Edward Baldwin
Edward Barrett, Emancipated slave and abolitionist
Edward Smith
Edward Steane
Elizabeth Pease
Eton Galusha, American Baptist minister
Francis Augustus Cox (1783-1853), Baptist preacher
G.K. Prince
George Bennett
George Bradburn, American abolitionist
George Head Head
George Stacey (1787-1857)
George Thompson (1804-1878)
George William Alexander (1802-1890), Treasurer of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
Henry B. Stanton
Henry Beckford, Emancipated slave and abolitionist
Henry Sterry (1803-1869)
Henry Taylor
Henry Tuckett
Isaac Bass (1782-1855)
Isaac Crewdson (1780-1844), Writer
Isaac Hodgson (1783-1847)
J. Harfield Tredgold
J.H. Johnson
Jacob Post (1774-1855), Quaker
James Carlile (1784-1854), Divine
James Dean, American abolitionist
James Gillespie Birney (1792-1857), American abolitionist
James Mott, American abolitionist
James Whitehorne
John Angell James (1785-1859), Independent minister
John Beaumont (1788-1862)
John Birt, American abolitionist
John Bowring (1792-1872), Linguist and traveller; Politician and diplomatist
John Burnet (1789-1862), Pastor of Mansion House Chapel, Camberwell
John Cropper
John Ellis (1789-1862), Railway promoter
John Howard Hinton (1791-1873), Baptist minister
John Keep, American abolitionist
John Morrison
John Scoble
John Steer (1780-1856)
John Sturge
John T. Norton, American abolitionist
John Woodmark
Jonathan Backhouse
Jonathan Miller, American abolitionist
Joseph Cooper (1800-1881)
Joseph Eaton (1793-1858)
Joseph Ketley
Joseph Marriage (1807-1884)
Joseph Pease (1772-1846), Reformer
Joseph Reynolds (1769-1859)
Joseph Sams (1784-1860), Orientalist
Joseph Soul
Joseph Sturge (1793-1859), Quaker and philanthropist
Josiah Conder (1789-1855), Bookseller
Josiah Forster (1782-1870)
Louis Celeste Lecesne
Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), American abolitionist
M. L'Instant, Haitian abolitionist
M.M. Isambert (sic), French, lawyer and abolitionist
Mary Clarkson, Daughter-in-law of Thomas Clarkson
Mrs John Beaumont (1790-1853)
Mrs Rawson, Sheffield campaigner
Mrs Tredgold, British South African
Nathaniel Colver, American abolitionist
Peter Clare (1781-1851), secretary of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester
Professor Adam, American slavery abolitionist
Richard Allen (1787-1873) from Dublin
Richard Barrett (1784-1855)
Richard D. Webb
Richard Peek ex Sheriff from Devon
Richard Rathbone
Richard Robert Madden (1798-1886), Writer
Richard Sterry (1785-1865)
Richard Tapper Cadbury (1768-1860), Birmingham manufacturer
Robert Forster (1792-1871)
Robert Kaye Greville (1794-1866), Botanist
Samuel Bowly (1802-1884), Quaker and anti-slavery agitator
Samuel Fox (1781-1868)
Samuel Gurney (1786-1856), 'The Banker's Banker'; philanthropist
Samuel Jackman Prescod, abolitionist from Barbados
Samuel Lucas (1811 – 1865), later editor of the Morning Star
Samuel Wheeler (1776-1858)
Saxe Bannister (1790-1877), Pamphleteer
Sir Edward Baines (1800-1890), Journalist
Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Bt (1783-1847)
Sir John Jeremie (1795-1841), Colonial judge
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Bt (1786-1845), Philanthropist
Stafford Allen (1806-1889)
Stephen Lushington (1782-1873), Judge
T.M. McDonnell
Thomas Binney (Benny) (1798-1874), Nonconformist divine
Thomas Bulley
Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846)
Thomas Clarkson, Grandson of Thomas Clarkson
Thomas Morgan
Thomas Pinches
Thomas Price
Thomas Scales
Thomas Swan
W.T. Blair
Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), American abolitionist
William Allen (1770-1843), Chemist and philanthropist
William Beaumont (1790-1869)
William Bevan
William Boultbee
William Brock (1807-1875), Dissenting divine
William Dawes, American abolitionist
William Dillworth
William Fairbank (1771-1846)
William Forster (1784-1854), Quaker philanthropist and minister
William James
William Kay
William Knibb (1803-1845), Missionary
William Leatham (1783-1842)
William Morgan
William Smeal (1792-1877)
William Tatum (1783-1862)
William Taylor
William Wilson

Date 1841
oil on canvas
297.2 × 383.6 cm (117 × 151 in)
National Portrait Gallery
Accession number NPG 599
Credit line Given by British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1880

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