Constance Anne (née Herschel), Lady Lubbock; Matilda Rose Waterfield (née Herschel); Julia Mary Maclear (née Herschel)
2 of 2 portraits of Julia Mary Maclear (née Herschel)
Constance Anne (née Herschel), Lady Lubbock; Matilda Rose Waterfield (née Herschel); Julia Mary Maclear (née Herschel)
by Unknown photographer
bromide print on card mount, 1864, printed later
5 1/2in. x 4 1/4in. (139 mm x 108 mm)
Purchased with help from Vera Collingwood, 1982
Photographs Collection
NPG x44628
Sittersback to top
- Constance Anne (née Herschel), Lady Lubbock (1855-1939), Wife of Sir Neville Lubbock; daughter of Sir John Herschel. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Julia Mary Maclear (née Herschel) (1842-1933), Wife of J.F.L.P. MacLear; daughter of Sir John Herschel. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Matilda Rose Waterfield (née Herschel) (1844-1914), Second wife of William Waterfield; daughter of Sir John Herschel. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
Artistback to top
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6582 portraits.
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1864back to top
Current affairs
First of the Contagious Diseases Act. These acts allowed for the arrest, medical inspection and confinement of any woman suspected of being a prostitute in the port towns. Following huge public outcry over their discrimination against women, notably led by Josephine Butler, leader of the Ladies' National Association, the acts were eventually repealed.Octavia Hill starts work on slums, and the International Working Men's Association is founded in London.
Art and science
The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell presents his discoveries in the field of electromagnetics to the Royal Society. His paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field expresses the basic laws of electricity and magnetism in unified fashion. Maxwell's equations, as his rules came to be known, helped create modern physics, laying the foundation for future work in special relativity and quantum mechanics.International
Austria and Prussia combine forces to seize Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.Britain cedes Corfu, acquired from France in the Second Treaty of Paris (1815) to Greece. Although Britain had vigorously suppressed an uprising in 1849 in Cephalonia aiming to restore Iolian islands, the government changed policy throughout the 1850s and 60s.
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