'A highland shepherd's dog'
1 portrait by Rudolph Ackermann Jr
© National Portrait Gallery, London
'A highland shepherd's dog'
by Richard James Lane, printed by Graf & Soret, published by Rudolph Ackermann Jr, after Sir Edwin Landseer
lithograph, published 1 March 1856
15 1/4 in. x 18 in. (388 mm x 458 mm) paper size
Given by Austin Lane Poole, 1956
Reference Collection
NPG D22018
Artistsback to top
- Rudolph Ackermann Jr (1793-1868), Print publisher. Artist or producer associated with 15 portraits.
- Graf & Soret (active 1833-1856), Lithographic printers. Artist or producer associated with 105 portraits.
- Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 57 portraits, Sitter in 23 portraits.
- Richard James Lane (1800-1872), Sculptor and lithographer. Artist or producer associated with 1226 portraits, Sitter in 6 portraits.
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Events of 1856back to top
Current affairs
Queen Victoria introduces the Victoria cross, an award for British soldiers who displayed exceptional valour in battle. Each medal was produced from Russian guns captured in the British war. In 2006, Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry became the first living recipient of the Victoria Cross since 1965, for his actions in the Iraq war.Art and science
The National Portrait Gallery is founded by Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl of Stanhope, Thomas Babington Macaulay, and Thomas Carlyle, all biographers and historians. Historical rather than artistic in focus, the Gallery's aim was to collect original portraits of outstanding figures from British history, notably from politics, the arts, literature and science.Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes her epic and autobiographical poem Aurora Leigh.
International
The Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean war. Russia concedes to the Anglo-French-Austrian Four Points of August 1854 including the guarantee of Ottoman sovereignty and territorial integrity. Russia also agreed to a demilitarisation of the land islands in the Baltics, a term which lasted until the outbreak of the First World War.Britain launches the second Opium war against China.
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