Elizabeth (née Rigby), Lady Eastlake
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Elizabeth (née Rigby), Lady Eastlake
by David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson
calotype, 1843-1847
7 7/8 in. x 5 3/4 in. (201 mm x 145 mm)
Given by Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Edinburgh: UK, 1973
Photographs Collection
NPG x27670
Sitterback to top
- Elizabeth (née Rigby), Lady Eastlake (1809-1893), Journalist and writer on art. Sitter in 11 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 10 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Robert Adamson (1821-1848), Pioneer photographer. Artist or producer associated with 382 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.
- David Octavius Hill (1802-1870), Landscape and portrait painter; pioneer photographer. Artist or producer associated with 382 portraits, Sitter associated with 22 portraits.
This portraitback to top
This photograph was taken in Edinburgh, where the pioneering photographers Hill & Adamson were based, and where Eastlake had moved in 1842.
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Victorian Women Historians (13 March 2008 - 31 August 2008)
- The Beautiful and the Damned (6 June 2001 - 7 October 2001)
Events of 1843back to top
Current affairs
Sir Henry Cole commissions 1,000 copies of the first Christmas card, designed by John Callcott Horsley. Cole would later be instrumental in staging the Great Exhibition, and in developing science and art education in Britain.Nelson's statue, by E.H. Bailey, is placed on top of its column in Trafalgar Square.
Art and science
The Theatre Regulations Act is passed, abolishing the privileged position of the 'major' theatres which held letters patent from the crown, allowing all theatres to perform 'legitimate' theatre.First volume of Ruskin's Modern Painters published, praising Turner and demanding that artists should demonstrate 'truth to nature' in their work. Ruskin is a great inspiration to the Pre-Raphaelites.
International
The first experimental telegraph wire is constructed between Baltimore and Washington, using Morse code to send a message. The code, in which pulses of current deflect an electromagnet, moving a marker and producing written codes on a strip of paper, had been invented by Samuel Morse in 1838. The line officially opens in 1844.Comments back to top
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