(Louis Dominique) Auguste Renoult
© National Portrait Gallery, London
(Louis Dominique) Auguste Renoult
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 2 April 1862
3 1/4 in. x 2 1/8 in. (84 mm x 55 mm) image size
Purchased, 1904
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax53326
Sitterback to top
- (Louis Dominique) Auguste Renoult (active 1860s), Photographer and partner in the studio of Camille Silvy. Sitter in 6 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Camille Silvy (1834-1910), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 14313 portraits, Sitter in 24 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, 38 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London)
Events of 1862back to top
Current affairs
The Lancashire cotton famine, a depression in the north-west textile industry brought about by the American civil war, reaches its climax. With large numbers of mills closing after Confederate blockades halted cotton supplies, many Lancashire families were in receipt of relief.Art and science
Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard carry out the first pasteurisation tests, the process of heating liquids at 55 degree Celsius or higher for short periods of time, destroying viruses and harmful organisms such as bacteria and yeast. .Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables is published, covering the Napoleonic wars. It traces the ex-convict Jean Valjean's character against wider questions of social and political justice, duty and love.
International
Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck becomes Minister-President of Prussia, appointed by Wilhelm I after the liberal Diet refused to authorise funding for a proposed reorganisation of the army. Bismarck, intent on maintaining royal supremacy, engineers the Unification of Germany during his time in office.John Hanning Speke claims to have found the source of the Nile, proving that the Victoria Nile issued from the north end of lake Victoria, over Ripon Falls.
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