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'La rosa parlante'

20 of 83 portraits by Joseph Dickinson

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'La rosa parlante'

by Richard James Lane, printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, published by Joseph Dickinson, after Alfred Edward Chalon
lithograph, published June 1827
11 3/4 in. x 8 3/4 in. (297 mm x 222 mm) paper size
Given by Austin Lane Poole, 1956
Reference Collection
NPG D21956

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  • Alfred Edward Chalon (1780-1860), Portrait and subject painter. Artist or producer associated with 180 portraits, Sitter associated with 1 portrait.
  • Joseph Dickinson (1780-1849), Stationer and lithographic publisher. Artist or producer associated with 83 portraits.
  • Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789-1850), Lithographic draughtsman and printer. Artist or producer associated with 106 portraits.
  • Richard James Lane (1800-1872), Sculptor and lithographer. Artist or producer associated with 1226 portraits, Sitter in 6 portraits.

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Current affairs

Lord Liverpool suffers a stroke and is forced to resign as Prime Minister. George Canning succeeds him only to die after four months in office.

Art and science

University College London, the first metropolitan university in England, is founded specifically to educate dissenters excluded from Oxford and Cambridge. Whig politician Henry Brougham, writer Thomas Campbell and financier and philanthropist Isaac Goldsmid are its principal patrons.

International

Britain, France and Russia sign a treaty in London agreeing to intervene in the Greek War of Independence. Allied troops under General Edward Codrington subsequently destroy Turkish and Egyptian fleets at the Battle of Navarino.
Western Australia is explored for the first time by Captain Stirling.

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Dr Selby Whittingham, Companion of the Clarence Bicknell Association and founder of The Turner Society, The Independent Turner Society and the Watteau Society))

25 September 2020, 11:14

The engraving after this by Henry Robinson in the British Museum identifies the sitter as Madame Vestris (note on the engraving). The original by Chalon belonged to Henry Hall Joy QC (d.1840) of Hartham Park, Corsham, Wiltshire.