Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala
by Charles Algernon Tomkins, published by T.W. Green, after Charles Mercier
mezzotint, published 3 May 1869
23 3/8 in. x 15 1/8 in. (595 mm x 383 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D33541
Sitterback to top
- Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810-1890), Field Marshal. Sitter in 27 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- T.W. Green (active 1868-1871), Publisher. Artist or producer associated with 8 portraits.
- Charles Mercier (1834-1901), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 7 portraits.
- Charles Algernon Tomkins (1821-circa 1903), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 36 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D38450: Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (from same plate)
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (36 Union Grove, Clapham, Surrey [London])
Events of 1869back to top
Current affairs
Gladstone introduces the Irish Church Disestablishment Act, which disestablishes the Church of Ireland, disassociating it from the state and repealing the paying of tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland.Girton College is founded in Cambridge by Barbara Bodichon and Emily Davies, the first residential college for women in England; women were granted full membership to the University in 1948.
Art and science
Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev invents the periodic table of elements, which arranges elements within a group in order of their atomic mass.The British scientist Mary Somerville publishes her last book On Molecular and Microscopic Science.
Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir paint together in the open air at La Grenouillère, developing the Impressionist style.
International
The Suez canal opens, linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez with the Mediterranean Sea, and transforming trade routes between Europe and Asia as merchants no longer had to circumvent Africa. The canal was largely in British and French control until Egyptian nationalisation in 1956, which sparked off the international Suez crisis.Serialisation of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel of Russian society during the Napoleonic wars, War and Peace finishes.
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