2-356-472 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

William Pitt the Younger, English statesman, 1781 (1912). Painted on paper. This commemorates his famous speech in favour of ending the American War of Independence, which he made in 1780 when 21 years of age. It is possibly the earliest portrait of him. A print from One Hundred Silhouette Portraits, Horace Hart, at the University of Oxford.