Richard James Lane
(1800-1872), Sculptor and lithographerSitter in 6 portraits
Artist associated with 1226 portraits
Born at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, into an artistic family. His mother was a niece of Thomas Gainsborough and his father a prebendary of Hereford Cathedral. At sixteen, he was apprenticed to line engraver Charles Heath. Lane worked as an engraver for several years before turning his attention to the lithographic method of printmaking. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1824 and was elected an associate engraver three years later. Lane specialised in portraiture; he produced hundreds of portraits of royalty, actors, artists and other notable society members. Queen Victoria appointed him royal lithographer in 1837.
by Richard James Lane, after George Henry Harlow
lithograph, 1851
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by Richard James Lane
lithograph, 1851
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by Richard James Lane
lithograph, circa 1851
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by Richard James Lane
lithograph, 1851
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by Richard James Lane, printed by M & N Hanhart, after Eden Upton Eddis
lithograph, 1851 (1851)
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by Richard James Lane, after Samuel Lane
lithograph, 1851
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by Richard James Lane, after Grant
lithograph, 1851
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Jane Griffin (née Cornwallis), Lady Braybrooke
by Richard James Lane, after Eden Upton Eddis
lithograph, 1851
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by Richard James Lane, after Henry Wyndham Phillips
lithograph, 1851
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by Richard James Lane, printed by M & N Hanhart, after Daniel Maclise
lithograph, 1852 (January 1830)
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by Richard James Lane, printed by M & N Hanhart, after Frederick A.C. Tilt
lithograph, 1852
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by Richard James Lane, printed by M & N Hanhart, after Frederick A.C. Tilt
lithograph, 1852
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by Richard James Lane
lithograph, 1852
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by Richard James Lane, after Richard Buckner
lithograph, 1852
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by Richard James Lane, after Jan Baptist van der Hulst
lithograph, 1852 (1847)
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Alexander Robert Charles Dallas
by Richard James Lane
lithograph, 1852 (1852)
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by Richard James Lane, after Emily Scott
lithograph, 1852 (1851)
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by Richard James Lane, printed by M & N Hanhart
lithograph, 1852
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by Richard James Lane, after Daniel Maclise
lithograph, 1852 (January 1830)
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John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford
by Richard James Lane, after Sir Edwin Landseer
lithograph, 1852 (6 August 1838)
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