Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

by W. & D. Downey
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
3 5/8 in. x 2 1/4 in. (93 mm x 57 mm) image size
Purchased, 1993
Photographs Collection
NPG x46619

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  • W. & D. Downey (active 1855-1940), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 938 portraits.

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Current affairs

The opening of the world's first underground railway, with the Metropolitan Railway running trains between Bishop's Street, Padington and Farringdon. Work had begun in 1860, using the 'cut-and-cover' method of construction. The Metropolitan line inspired the construction of other underground railways - the Parisian 'Metro' took its name from the line.
The Football Association is founded.

Art and science

Julia Margaret Cameron takes up photography, taking portraits of some of the most celebrated figures of the day, with her romantic style capturing the sense of nostalgia and longing that characterised the age.
Kingsley's Water Babies; A Fairy Tale for Children is published, the hugely popular tale of drowned chimney sweep Tom's moral education in the river world of the water babies. It inspired the 1978 film starring James Mason.

International

At an international conference, the Geneva Public Welfare Society calls on the sixteen nations present to form voluntary units to help the wartime wounded. The society, comprised of five Swiss citizens and led by Henri Dunant, who had been deeply affected by the casualties he had witnessed at the Battle of Solferino, became the National Red Cross Societies, adopting the emblem of a red cross on white background.

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C. P. Lewis

29 June 2019, 13:48

Brougham is seated on the same chair and against the same background of a circular masonry structure with a pronounced batter as in NPG P481, a double-portrait with William Ewart Gladstone; Brougham's jacket and trousers look the same in the two photos, but the colour of his waistcoat seems different (unless a trick of the light), as perhaps his hair. He is holding an umbrella in the double portrait, not the hat seen here.
Gladstone's diary mentions sittings for 'Downie' [sic] in Newcastle on 7 Oct. 1862, London on 22 July 1863, and London again on 16 July 1867; none mentions Brougham as being with him. Of course we can't be certain that Gladstone recorded *every* sitting in his diary.
Could the location be anything in Newcastle? It's not the keep of the castle, which is entirely rectilinear. Could it be anything in London? Or could the location be Brougham Hall (Westmorland), Brougham's country seat?