James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
2 of 115 portraits by Sir Francis Grant
© National Portrait Gallery, London
James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
by Sir Francis Grant
oil on canvas, circa 1841
15 3/4 in. x 14 3/8 in. (400 mm x 365 mm)
Purchased, 1980
Primary Collection
NPG 5369
Sitterback to top
- James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868), General. Sitter in 11 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Sir Francis Grant (1803-1878), Portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Artist or producer associated with 115 portraits, Sitter associated with 21 portraits.
This portraitback to top
This is a sketch for Grant's large painting of Cardigan at Deene Park, recorded in his Sitter's Book for 1841.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Victorian Portraits Resource Pack, p. 13
- Funnell, Peter, Victorian Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery Collection, 1996, p. 13
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 101
- Strutt, Sally, A history of the Culden Faw Estate : Culham, Hambleden and Fawley, past to present, 2013, p. 89
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1841back to top
Current affairs
Sir Robert Peel's second term as Prime Minister. Peel replaces the Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne after a Conservative general election victory. The English comic periodical Punch is first published, under the auspices of engraver Ebenezer Landells and writer Henry Mayhew, and quickly establishes itself as a radical commentary on the arts, politics and current affairs, notable for its heavily satirised cartoons.Art and science
Thomas Carlyle publishes his set of lectures On Heroes and Hero Worship, in which he attempts to connect past heroic figures to significant figures form the present.William Henry Fox Talbot invents the calotype process, in which photographs were developed from negatives. This allowed for multiple copies of images to be made, and was the basis of modern, pre-digital, photographic processing.
International
Signing of the Straits Convention, an international agreement between Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, Russia and Turkey, denying access to non-Ottoman warships through the seas connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, a major concession by Russia. Whilst signalling a spirit of co-operation, the convention emphasises the decline of the Ottoman Empire.Comments back to top
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