Spencer Horatio Walpole
1 portrait of Spencer Horatio Walpole
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Spencer Horatio Walpole
by William Holl Jr, after George Richmond
stipple engraving, 1852 or after
11 7/8 in. x 8 7/8 in. (302 mm x 227 mm) plate size; 22 1/8 in. x 15 in. (563 mm x 380 mm) paper size
Given by Grillion's Club, 1903
Reference Collection
NPG D20669
Sitterback to top
- Spencer Horatio Walpole (1806-1898), Politician; Home Secretary. Sitter in 16 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- William Holl Jr (1807-1871), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 177 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
- George Richmond (1809-1896), Portrait painter and draughtsman; son of Thomas Richmond. Artist or producer associated with 337 portraits, Sitter in 14 portraits.
Events of 1852back to top
Current affairs
The Peelites, a breakaway group who had supported Peel during the Corn Law reforms, join the Liberals. The Conservative Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, becomes Prime Minister after Lord John Russell's Liberal administration collapses. The administration is short-lived and replaced by a new Liberal-Peelite coalition, under the leadership of former Tory George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.Art and science
Start of spiritualism craze in England.London physician Peter Mark Roget first publishes his thesaurus.
American author Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes the hugely successful anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Scottish physicist William Thomson formulates the second law of thermodynamics, demonstrating that a rapidly expanding gas cools.
International
Independent Boer republics north of the Vaal and Orange rivers are recognised by Britain following the Sand River Convention. Later, the Bloemfontein Convention (1854) formally recognises the independence of Boer republics between the Vaal and Orange rivers, resulting in the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State.Tension escalates in Crimea as France demands that Turkey end Russia's exclusive control of the Christian Holy Places in the Ottoman empire.
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