John Doubleday

1 portrait by Henry Corbould

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John Doubleday

by Henry Corbould
lithograph, 1836
10 3/4 in. x 8 3/4 in. (274 mm x 223 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Whitin Fund, 1954
Reference Collection
NPG D42935

Sitterback to top

  • John Doubleday (circa 1799-1856), Dealer in casts of coins, object restorer for the British Museum. Sitter in 1 portrait.

Artistback to top

  • Henry Corbould (1787-1844), Draughtsman and book illustrator. Artist or producer associated with 23 portraits.

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Current affairs

William Lovett founds the Working Men's Association, the precursor to Chartism, with the aim to achieving equal social and political rights between men of all classes.
A reduction in stamp duty from 4d to 1d helps to keep unstamped newspapers off the street, and leads to wider circulation of legal newspapers.
The first railway line is built in London, connecting to Greenwich and operated by the London Greenwich Railway (LGR).

Art and science

The American poet and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson outlines his theory of transcendentalism in Nature, in which he argues for individualism above traditional authority, stressing the infinitude of the private self and the possibility of achieving an original relation to the universe.
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer publishes On the Will in Nature, a precursor to his famous The World as Will and Representation.

International

Texas declares its independence from Mexico following a series of battles, including those at the Alamo and Goliad. Sam Houston is the first president of Texas, serving both in 1836-38 and 1841-44.
The city of Adelaide is founded in Australia, at the mouth of the Torrens river, named in honour of Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV.

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Luc Mitchell

26 March 2018, 20:48

This is probably from 1836, not 1856. Henry Corbould died in 1844, so could not have produced an 1856 work, and Doubleday died in January 1856 after being ill for some time, so likely could not have sat for an 1856 portrait. A list of British Museum acquisitions between 1836 and 1839 shows that Doubleday presented the museum with a lithograph of himself by Corbould in those years (see: https://books.google.com/books?id=dKlPAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA40#v=onepage&q=Doubleday&f=false). As the date on this piece clearly ends in a 6, and as Doubleday seems to have donated it to the BM between 1836 and 1839, it seems likely that this was produced in 1836.