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Thomas Phillips

1770 - 1845

This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.

Biographical notes

Portrait painter.

Slavery connections

No known connections with slavery.

Abolition connections

No known connections with abolition.

National Gallery painting connections

Donor: presented in 1841: NG183 (now at Tate, N00183).

Bibliography

C. Crawley, 'Phillips family (1) Thomas Phillips', in J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T067065
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History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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A. Peach, 'Phillips, Thomas', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/22174
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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