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James Augustus Grant

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James Augustus Grant

by Samuel Hollyer Jr, after Urquhart
line and stipple engraving, 1864 or after
8 7/8 in. x 5 5/8 in. (225 mm x 142 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D21345

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  • Samuel Hollyer Jr (1826-1919), Line engraver; brother of Frederick Hollyer. Artist or producer associated with 3 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
  • Urquhart. Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.

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  • NPG D21346: James Augustus Grant (from same plate)

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Current affairs

First of the Contagious Diseases Act. These acts allowed for the arrest, medical inspection and confinement of any woman suspected of being a prostitute in the port towns. Following huge public outcry over their discrimination against women, notably led by Josephine Butler, leader of the Ladies' National Association, the acts were eventually repealed.
Octavia Hill starts work on slums, and the International Working Men's Association is founded in London.

Art and science

The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell presents his discoveries in the field of electromagnetics to the Royal Society. His paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field expresses the basic laws of electricity and magnetism in unified fashion. Maxwell's equations, as his rules came to be known, helped create modern physics, laying the foundation for future work in special relativity and quantum mechanics.

International

Austria and Prussia combine forces to seize Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.
Britain cedes Corfu, acquired from France in the Second Treaty of Paris (1815) to Greece. Although Britain had vigorously suppressed an uprising in 1849 in Cephalonia aiming to restore Iolian islands, the government changed policy throughout the 1850s and 60s.

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Alexis Grant Van Dyke

21 March 2017, 04:57

I ran across your web page while looking for something else. I'm Alexis Grant Van Dyke and I believe this is Scottish explorer James Augustus Grant, who with explorer John Speke, discovered the source of the Nile in 1862. James, a son of a minister, was born in Nairn on April 11, 1827 and passed on February 11, 1892, if I read correctly. He was educated, and served as a soldier in the Sikh
War, and was later a Lieutenant Colonel. He wrote some books about his explorations, botany discoveries (as I understand), and documented an illness he acquired while transversing Africa. He is supposedly buried in a crypt in St. Paul's Cathedral (You may know the above. I do not know about the portrait's origination or the artist, although I could do some research if I found some time. I hope this helps. I corrected this from my first entry to read portrait, not painting. Please excuse me).