Isabella Ann Wolff
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Isabella Ann Wolff
by Samuel Cousins, published by John Clowes Grundy, published by Robert Hindmarsh Grundy, published by Anaglyphic Company, after Goupil & Vibert, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
lithograph, published 1 March 1844 (1815)
17 3/8 in. x 12 5/8 in. (440 mm x 320 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1956
Reference Collection
NPG D36320
Sitterback to top
- Isabella Ann Wolff (1771?-1829), Wife of Jens Wolff, the Danish consul in London. Sitter in 4 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Anaglyphic Company (active 1844), Publisher. Artist or producer associated with 19 portraits.
- Samuel Cousins (1801-1887), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 180 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.
- Goupil & Vibert (active 1844), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 12 portraits.
- John Clowes Grundy (1806-1867), Printseller, publisher and art patron. Artist or producer associated with 6 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Robert Hindmarsh Grundy (1816-1865), Printseller and watercolourist. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
- Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), Portrait painter, collector and President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 698 portraits, Sitter in 25 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (Berners Street, London)
- Place made: France (Paris, France)
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, Greater Manchester (Manchester)
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, Merseyside (Liverpool)
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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