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Litchfield Tabrum

by John Linnell
pencil and red and white chalk, 1841
13 3/8 in. x 8 3/8 in. (340 mm x 213 mm)
Purchased, 1918
Primary Collection
NPG 1818a

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  • John Linnell (1792-1882), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 70 portraits, Sitter in 8 portraits.

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This is a preparatory drawing made for a portrait miniature, and demonstrates Linnell's skill at swiftly capturing a likeness. A sketch such as this would be used as a guide for painting a miniature in watercolour on ivory. At this stage in his career, Linnell was charging high prices for his works, particularly portraits. Little is known about Mr Tabrum, but he is likely to have been a wealthy gentleman.

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Current affairs

Sir Robert Peel's second term as Prime Minister. Peel replaces the Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne after a Conservative general election victory. The English comic periodical Punch is first published, under the auspices of engraver Ebenezer Landells and writer Henry Mayhew, and quickly establishes itself as a radical commentary on the arts, politics and current affairs, notable for its heavily satirised cartoons.

Art and science

Thomas Carlyle publishes his set of lectures On Heroes and Hero Worship, in which he attempts to connect past heroic figures to significant figures form the present.
William Henry Fox Talbot invents the calotype process, in which photographs were developed from negatives. This allowed for multiple copies of images to be made, and was the basis of modern, pre-digital, photographic processing.

International

Signing of the Straits Convention, an international agreement between Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, Russia and Turkey, denying access to non-Ottoman warships through the seas connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, a major concession by Russia. Whilst signalling a spirit of co-operation, the convention emphasises the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

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