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| medium = [[Oil on canvas]]
| subject = [[Lord Grenville]]
| museum = [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]]
| city = London
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The son of [[George Grenville]], prime minister during the 1760s, Grenville was a strong supporter of his cousin [[William Pitt the Younger]]. He broke with Pitt in the early 1800s and joined with the opposition [[Whigs (British political party)|Whigs]] led by [[Charles James Fox]]. Following Pitt's death in 1806 Grenville succeeded him as prime minister, heading the Whig-dominated [[Ministry of All the Talents]]; however, this fell from power after thirteen months.{{sfn|Stott|2020|p=73}}
Hoppner was the London-born son of German-born parents and established himself as a prominent [[portraitist]] in [[Regency Britain]]. Today the painting is in the [[National Portrait Gallery
== References ==
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=== Bibliography ===
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* {{Cite book |last=Stott |first=Anne M. |url={{GBurl|id=
* {{Cite book |url={{GBurl|id=9XNe0mLSJQAC}} |title=British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland |date=2006 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-11730-1 |editor-last=Wright |editor-first=Christopher |editor-link=Christopher Wright (archivist) |url-access=limited}}
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[[Category:Paintings by John Hoppner]]
[[Category:Paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, London]]
[[Category:Portrait paintings of
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