Lady Eleanor Percy (née Grosvenor), Duchess of Northumberland
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Lady Eleanor Percy (née Grosvenor), Duchess of Northumberland
by Samuel Cousins, after Henry Weigall
mezzotint, (1865)
20 1/8 in. x 15 1/2 in. (511 mm x 393 mm) plate size; 22 5/8 in. x 16 3/4 in. (574 mm x 424 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1955
Reference Collection
NPG D39317
Sitterback to top
- Lady Eleanor Percy (née Grosvenor), Duchess of Northumberland (1820-1911), Daughter of 2nd Marquess of Westminster; wife of 4th Duke Northumberland. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Samuel Cousins (1801-1887), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 180 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.
- Henry Weigall (1829-1925), Portrait and genre painter. Artist or producer associated with 11 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
Events of 1865back to top
Current affairs
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first female to be awarded a doctor's licence. She is also involved in collecting signatures for the Manchester Suffrage Committee, the first suffrage organisation, formed this year. John Stuart Mill was also elected to parliament this year on the platform of women's suffrage.Palmerston dies in October, and is replaced as leader of the Liberal government by his Foreign Secretary, Lord Russell.
Art and science
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is published, inspired by Carroll's relationship (as Oxford don Charles Dodgson) with his friend Henry George Liddell's daughter Alice.Matthew Arnold publishes the first series of Essays in Criticism, a defining text in the development of English literature as an academic discipline.
International
In the American civil war, Robert E. Lee surrenders the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant, leading to the surrender of the Confederacy's remaining field armies. A few days later, US President Abraham Lincoln is shot dead by Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth. Later this year slavery is officially abolished after years of fierce campaigning. In response, the first branch of the Ku Klux Klan is founded on Christmas Eve.Comments back to top
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