Charles James Phipps Eyre

1 portrait by Frederick Lankester

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Charles James Phipps Eyre

by Thomas Goff Lupton, published by Frederick Lankester, sold by George Lovejoy, after James Pardon
mezzotint, published 1 September 1846
19 1/8 in. x 13 7/8 in. (485 mm x 354 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D36626

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  • Frederick Lankester (active 1846), Publisher of Bury St Edmunds. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
  • George Lovejoy (1808-1883), Print and bookseller of Reading. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
  • Thomas Goff Lupton (1791-1873), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 130 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
  • James Pardon (circa 1794-1862), Miniaturist. Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.

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Current affairs

The Conservative Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel divides his own party by repealing the unpopular Corn Laws, which prohibited the import of cheap grain from overseas, viewed by many as causing the famines in Ireland (which peaked in this year), as well as domestic hardships following a bad harvest. Peel, defeated on a separate issue, resigns. The Whig Earl Russell becomes Prime Minister.

Art and science

Ether is used for the first time as anaesthetic in an operation by the dentist William Morton, while surgeon John Collins Warren removes a tumor on a patient's neck.
Edward Lear, the popular humourist and artist, and author of illustrated nonsense verse (including 'The Owl and the Pussycat'), publishes his Book of Nonsense.

International

The first Anglo-Sikh war ends with the Treaty of Lahore, by which Jammu and Kashmir are ceded to the British. The war had been fought between the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab and the British East India Company, with conflict escalating after internal disorder in the Punjab led the East India Company to increase their military presence on the border.

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