Lowes Cato Dickinson
(1819-1908), Portrait painterArtist associated with 39 portraits
At sixteen, Dickinson began working for his father, a stationer and lithograph publisher. He travelled to Italy in 1850 and spent three years there, and started to paint. On his return, he rented a studio where he continued painting. Dickinson joined the lawyer Tom Hughes, the writer Charles Kingsley and others as founding members of the London Working Men's College. Together with Ruskin, Dickinson conducted the first art classes at the college. He painted many portraits of writers including George Eliot, the politician Richard Cobden, lawyers, religious figures, and men of letters and science. Dickinson regularly exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy from 1848 to 1891.
by Lowes Cato Dickinson, printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, after George Richmond
lithograph, circa 1842-1850
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by Lowes Cato Dickinson, printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, published by Joseph Dickinson, after Samuel Laurence
lithograph, published December 1842
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by Lowes Cato Dickinson, after Sir Vincent Eyre
lithograph, (1842)
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Florentia (née Wynch), Lady Sale
by Lowes Cato Dickinson, after Sir Vincent Eyre
lithograph, (1842)
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Florentia (née Wynch), Lady Sale
by Lowes Cato Dickinson, after Sir Vincent Eyre
lithograph, (1842)
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by Lowes Cato Dickinson, after Robert Scott Tait
lithograph, mid 19th century
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by Lowes Cato Dickinson, after Frederick Cruickshank
lithograph, 1850s-1880s
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Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough
by Lowes Cato Dickinson, published by Thacker & Co, published by Andrew's Library, after C. Grant
lithograph, 1850s
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by James Thomson (Thompson), after Lowes Cato Dickinson
stipple and line engraving, published 1850
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by James Thomson (Thompson), after Lowes Cato Dickinson
stipple and line engraving, published 1850
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by George J. Stodart, after Lowes Cato Dickinson
stipple engraving, 1850 or after
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by George J. Stodart, after Lowes Cato Dickinson
stipple engraving, 1850 or after
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after Lowes Cato Dickinson
etching, 1860s?
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by George Sanders, published by Henry Graves & Co, after Lowes Cato Dickinson
mezzotint, published 21 March 1864
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by Sir George Scharf, after Lowes Cato Dickinson
pencil on tracing paper, 1865
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by Samuel Cousins, published by Dickinson Brothers, after Lowes Cato Dickinson
hand-coloured mezzotint, published 1871
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Julia (née Coke), Viscountess Powerscourt
by Francis Holl, printed by McQueen (Macqueen), published by Dickinson Brothers, after Lowes Cato Dickinson
stipple engraving, published 3 July 1873
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published by Photographische Gesellschaft, after Lowes Cato Dickinson
photogravure, circa 1900
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Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough; Unknown man
by Samuel Cousins, after Lowes Cato Dickinson
mixed-method engraving, based on a work of circa 1851
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