Henry Perronet Briggs, 1823, 149 x 199 CM Henry Perronet Briggs - The discovery of the gunpowder plot (1823) This painting was produced by Henry Peronet Briggs an artist who came from County Durham; who had learned his trade at the Royal Academy in the early nineteenth century. Briggs died of tuberculosis in London in 1844 … Continue reading The discovery of the gunpowder plot.