Agnes Strickland
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Agnes Strickland
by Charles L. Gow
chalk, 1844
10 in. x 8 in. (254 mm x 203 mm)
Given by Wilfrid Partington, 1937
Primary Collection
NPG 2923
Artistback to top
- Charles L. Gow (active 1844-1872), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Charles Gow's drawing was made as Strickland was gaining celebrity as a historian. The photographs were taken after the publication of further works including Lives of the Queens of Scotland (1850) and The Batchelor Kings of England (1861).
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ormond, Richard, Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, p. 437
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 595
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Victorian Women Historians (13 March 2008 - 31 August 2008)
Events of 1844back to top
Current affairs
Britain experiences a railway boom. Peel's government passes a series of Acts creating provision of cheap, regular rail services. George Hudson, the first great railway entrepreneur, who controlled over 1,000 miles of railway track and whose enterprises made York a major commercial and transport hub, becomes known as 'the Railway King'.Art and science
Disraeli's Coningsby is published. The first of his 1840s 'Young England' trilogy, it was the cultural manifesto of Disraeli's vision for a new Conservativism.David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson set up their innovative and pioneering photography studio in Edinburgh, capturing portraits of both Scottish society figures and workers, as well as urban and rural landscape scenes.
International
Tensions continue to mount in Eastern Europe over Russian imperialist ambitions, as Tsar Nicholas I describes the Ottoman Empire as 'the Sick Man of Europe'.With the overthrow of the Haitians, the Spanish-speaking portion of the island of Hispaniola gains independence, as the Dominican Republic.
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