Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes
by Henry Moseley
oil on canvas, circa 1850
99 in. x 63 3/4 in. (2515 mm x 1619 mm)
Bequeathed by the sitter's widow, Emma (née Sidney), Lady Edwardes, 1905
Primary Collection
NPG 1391
Sitterback to top
- Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes (1819-1868), Army and political officer in India. Sitter in 9 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Henry Moseley (1798-1866), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.
This portraitback to top
This is a historical work of art which reflects the attitudes and viewpoints of the time in which it was made. Whilst these may differ from today's attitudes, this image is an important historical document.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Bayly, Christopher, The Raj: India and the British 1600-1947, 1990 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 19 October 1990 - 17 March 1991), p. 182
- Ormond, Richard, Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, p. 157
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 196
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Events of 1850back to top
Current affairs
Cardinal Wiseman, a Catholic priest who had exerted a strong influence on the Oxford movement, is made a Cardinal and leader of the Catholic church in England, thus restoring Roman Catholic hierarchy in England.Art and science
Death of poet laureate William Wordsworth; his great autobiographical poem The Prelude is published posthumously, famously charting the growth of the poet's mind.Tennyson's In Memoriam is also published. A poignant record of his grief over the death of his friend Arthur Hallam, the poem also movingly questions the strength of faith in an increasingly scientific age.
International
Up to 50,000 pioneers travel west in wagons on the Oregon trail in the United States, one of the main overland migration routes across the continent. Spanning over half the continent, the trail led 2,170 miles through territories and land which would later become six US states, including Kansas, Wyoming and Oregon, helping the US to implement its goal of Manifest Destiny - building a nation spanning the North American continent.Comments back to top
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