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Description: Jacob Post was born at Whitefriars in 12 September 1755. His parents, John and Rosamund, enrolled him at a school in Ackworth, Yorkshire run by the Society of Friends. By 1787 he had moved to Islington and wrote in support of the emerging evangelical section of the Quakers. In 1812 he founded a local section of the Bible Society. Here he is at the back of the w:British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1840. Note this is an extract from a much larger painting.
Title: Jacob Post 1840
Credit: http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp00069&rNo=0&role=sit#
Author: Benjamin Haydon
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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