Rowland Hill
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Rowland Hill
possibly by Lucius Gahagan Sr
plaster cast of bust, circa 1828
20 in. (508 mm) high
Given by Francis Draper, 1905
Primary Collection
NPG 1401
Artistback to top
- Lucius Gahagan Sr (1773-1855), Sculptor; father of Lucius Gahagan (1798-1866). Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 257
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 303
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Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister.Madhouse Act attempts to regulate asylums and ensure new arrivals are genuinely insane.
Repeal of the Test Acts removes political restrictions from dissenters, allowing them to hold public office.
Art and science
London Zoological Gardens open in Regent's Park. They provide both entertainment and a supply of exotic specimens for naturalists and anatomists such as Richard Owen who becomes a European authority on the subject.International
Daniel O'Connell is elected Member of Parliament for County Clare but as a Catholic is not permitted to take his seat.Comments back to top
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Jacinto Regalado
30 November 2020, 23:13
A bust of Rev. Rowland Hill by N. Palmer was shown at the Royal Academy in 1829 (No. 1169 on page 46 of the RA exhibition catalogue). Graves includes this bust in his listing of works by N. Palmer shown at the RA (he exhibited there from 1829 to 1844). I expect this is the Nathaniel Palmer by whom the V&A has an 1838 wax bust of Queen Victoria. Graves lists a "cabinet statue of HRH the Princess Victoria" by N. Palmer shown at the RA in 1837. Palmer may well have been the artist for this NPG bust.