England / UK: A portrait of Edward Gibbon, historian and politician (1737-1794), Henry Walton (died 1813), 1773

Edward Gibbon (8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.

The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organised religion.

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