Mary Georgiana Emma Dawson Damer (née Seymour); Lionel Seymour William Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of Portarlington
5 of 6 portraits by Thomas Francis Dicksee
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Mary Georgiana Emma Dawson Damer (née Seymour); Lionel Seymour William Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of Portarlington
by Thomas Francis Dicksee, published by Henry Graves & Co, after John Lucas
lithograph, published 7 September 1852
21 in. x 15 1/4 in. (532 mm x 388 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D34837
Sittersback to top
- Mary Georgiana Emma Dawson Damer (née Seymour) (1798-1848), Wife of George Lionel Dawson Damer. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Lionel Seymour William Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of Portarlington (1832-1892), Politician and landowner. Sitter in 3 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819-1895), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 6 portraits.
- Henry Graves & Co (active 1844-1899), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 257 portraits.
- John Lucas (1807-1874), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 36 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
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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