The House of Commons, 1833

The House of Commons, 1833 is a large history painting by the British artist George Hayter.

[1] It depicts the first meeting of the House of Commons following the Reform Act 1832 and the subsequent general election that produced a landslide majority for the ruling Whig Government.

It was a further fifteen years before he finally sold it in 1858 to the newly founded National Portrait Gallery.

[3] In 1895 the Gallery also acquired what functions as an effective companion piece, Hayter's earlier The Trial of Queen Caroline depicting the House of Lords in 1820.

Hayter originally planned to depict all 658 members of the new commons, but instead settled on a reduced number of around 375 although he kept a roughly proportionate party balance between Whigs and Tories.