Harriet Charlotte Beaujolois (née Campbell), Countess of Charleville
2 of 2 portraits of Harriet Charlotte Beaujolois (née Campbell), Countess of Charleville
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Harriet Charlotte Beaujolois (née Campbell), Countess of Charleville
by Edward Francis Finden, after John Hayter
stipple engraving, published 1841
13 1/2 in. x 11 in. (343 mm x 279 mm) plate size; 17 1/4 in. x 13 5/8 in. (438 mm x 347 mm) paper size
Given by Ernest E. Leggatt, before 1922-01-01
Reference Collection
NPG D32873
Sitterback to top
- Harriet Charlotte Beaujolois (née Campbell), Countess of Charleville (1801-1848), Wife of 2nd Earl of Charleville. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Edward Francis Finden (1791-1857), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 33 portraits.
- John Hayter (1800-1895), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 72 portraits.
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Events of 1841back to top
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.Comments back to top
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