Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840

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Original - Thomas Clarkson addresses the The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, painting by Benjamin Robert Haydon, currently residing in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Reason: This historic painting by Benjamin Robert Haydon is already a Featured Picture on Wiki Commons. Copying Dcoetzee's rationale from that nomination, "this is a high-quality, 10 megapixel image of a famous painting from the National Portrait Gallery, London which depicts in arduous detail the pivotal 1840 Anti-Slavery Society Convention with an elderly Thomas Clarkson speaking. It contains 136 identifiable persons, and details of it have been used to illustrate over 28 different articles, many of which have no other known portrait of the subject."

Since that nomination, it has been added to many more articles, and has an added bonus that on some articles (i.e. Anti-Slavery Society), a clickable grid has been created which allows a user to identify and read about the people at the conference by moving their cursor over the painting. So in summary, high quality, historic context and demonstrates the Wiki format to its best abilities. This is about as encyclopedic as it gets, really.
Articles in which this image appears: A huge number of articles link to this image, but the key ones are probably Thomas Clarkson, Anti-Slavery Society, Anti-Slavery International, Abolitionism, plus many of the individuals on the painting. It's probably better to look at the list on the image page, to be honest as it's rather long.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others
Creator: Dcoetzee

Support as nominator --Rob (talk) 11:21, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. High-quality and encyclopedic, as it adds to dozens of biographies. Neutrality^talk 05:20, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support very interesting --Thanks, Hadseys 23:34, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support I get this feeling that it has been cropped tightly though. JJ Harrison (talk) 03:02, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- If this engraving is accurate, it looks like a little sliver is chopped off at the left: you can see the end of the scroll in the engraving, but not in our reproduction of the painting. Chick Bowen 00:10, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Looking at a picture of the original in its frame here, it doesn't look like it's been cropped, unless it's by the edges of the frame? Rob (talk) 10:03, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Indeed, it may have been reframed some time after the engraving was made. Chick Bowen 15:56, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support I initially had some concerns about cropping, but as this does not appear to be the case, I have no reservations. High EV and quality. SMasters (talk) 03:54, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840 by Benjamin Robert Haydon.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 18:47, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]