George Clint







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George Clint
by Thomas Goff Lupton, after George Clint
mezzotint, published 1854
14 1/2 in. x 10 7/8 in. (368 mm x 275 mm) plate size; 16 3/8 in. x 12 1/8 in. (415 mm x 307 mm) paper size
Given by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt, 1916
Reference Collection
NPG D19387
Sitterback to top
- George Clint (1770-1854), Portrait painter and engraver. Sitter in 4 portraits, Artist associated with 79 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- George Clint (1770-1854), Portrait painter and engraver. Artist associated with 79 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.
- Thomas Goff Lupton (1791-1873), Engraver. Artist associated with 127 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
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'.Tell us more back to top
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