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John Howard

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John Howard

by William Daniell, after George Dance
soft-ground etching, published 1854? (1794)
10 7/8 in. x 8 in. (275 mm x 204 mm) plate size; 15 1/2 in. x 11 3/8 in. (394 mm x 288 mm) paper size
Purchased, 1908
Reference Collection
NPG D12202

Sitterback to top

John Howard (1726?-1790), Prison reformer. Sitter in 7 portraits.

Artistsback to top

George Dance (1741-1825), Architect and portrait draughtsman. Artist or producer associated with 322 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.
William Daniell (1769-1837), Landscape painter and engraver. Artist or producer associated with 288 portraits.

Portrait setback to top

William Daniell after George Dance soft-ground etchings, 1802-27

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Events of 1854back to top

Current affairs

The Working Men's College in London is founded by Frederick Maurice, who along with Charles Kingsley, a leading proponent of Christian Socialism, mocked by its opponents as 'muscular Christianity'. Christian Socialism attempted to combine the fundamental aims of socialism with the ethics of Christianity.
William Howard Russell is sent to cover the Crimean war by his paper, The Times; his dispatches mark the start of modern war correspondence.

Art and science

The artist William Powell Frith paints his famous Ramsgate Sands, Life at the Seaside, an astute observation of modern leisure time.
Dr John Snow, the founder of epidemiology, discovers that cholera is spread by water, rather than air, following the deaths of 500 people in ten days who had drank from a water pump in Broad Street. The Public Health Act is passed in response, setting up the General Board of Health.

International

Britain enters the Crimean war on 31 March, after an alliance is formed between Turkey, France, Sardinia and Britain against Russia. Florence Nightingale achieves great fame in introducing modern nursing techniques to the battlefield, earning her the title 'Lady with the Lamp'.

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