Josiah Wedgwood
4 of 6 portraits of Josiah Wedgwood
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Josiah Wedgwood
by Samuel William Reynolds, printed by Brooker & Harrison, published by Robert Sheppard, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 1841
16 in. x 12 1/2 in. (407 mm x 319 mm) plate size; 20 1/2 in. x 15 in. (522 mm x 381 mm) plate size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D37630
Artistsback to top
- Brooker & Harrison (active 1842-circa 1906), Printers. Artist or producer associated with 51 portraits.
- Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), Painter and first President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 1425 portraits, Sitter associated with 40 portraits.
- Samuel William Reynolds (1773-1835), Mezzotint engraver and painter. Artist or producer associated with 639 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.
- Robert Sheppard (active 1730-1740). Artist or producer associated with 27 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, Tyne and Wear (Repository of Arts, Newcastle under Lyme)
Events of 1841back to top
Current affairs
Sir Robert Peel's second term as Prime Minister. Peel replaces the Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne after a Conservative general election victory. The English comic periodical Punch is first published, under the auspices of engraver Ebenezer Landells and writer Henry Mayhew, and quickly establishes itself as a radical commentary on the arts, politics and current affairs, notable for its heavily satirised cartoons.Art and science
Thomas Carlyle publishes his set of lectures On Heroes and Hero Worship, in which he attempts to connect past heroic figures to significant figures form the present.William Henry Fox Talbot invents the calotype process, in which photographs were developed from negatives. This allowed for multiple copies of images to be made, and was the basis of modern, pre-digital, photographic processing.
International
Signing of the Straits Convention, an international agreement between Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, Russia and Turkey, denying access to non-Ottoman warships through the seas connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, a major concession by Russia. Whilst signalling a spirit of co-operation, the convention emphasises the decline of the Ottoman Empire.Comments back to top
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