William Charles Macready as Werner
5 of 5 portraits by Joseph Sandell Welch
© National Portrait Gallery, London
William Charles Macready as Werner
by Napoleon Ploszczynski, printed by M & N Hanhart, published by Joseph Sandell Welch, after John Deffett Francis
lithograph heightened with red, published 22 April 1850
18 3/8 in. x 13 5/8 in. (468 mm x 347 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D38131
Sitterback to top
- William Charles Macready (1793-1873), Actor and theatre manager; son of William Macready. Sitter associated with 32 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- John Deffett Francis (1815-1901), Artist and collector. Artist or producer associated with 9 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
- M & N Hanhart (active 1839-1882), Lithographic printers. Artist or producer associated with 334 portraits.
- Napoleon Ploszczynski (1809-1868), Lithographer. Artist or producer associated with 3 portraits.
- Joseph Sandell Welch (active 1847-1850), Printseller. Artist or producer associated with 5 portraits.
Events of 1850back to top
Current affairs
Cardinal Wiseman, a Catholic priest who had exerted a strong influence on the Oxford movement, is made a Cardinal and leader of the Catholic church in England, thus restoring Roman Catholic hierarchy in England.Art and science
Death of poet laureate William Wordsworth; his great autobiographical poem The Prelude is published posthumously, famously charting the growth of the poet's mind.Tennyson's In Memoriam is also published. A poignant record of his grief over the death of his friend Arthur Hallam, the poem also movingly questions the strength of faith in an increasingly scientific age.
International
Up to 50,000 pioneers travel west in wagons on the Oregon trail in the United States, one of the main overland migration routes across the continent. Spanning over half the continent, the trail led 2,170 miles through territories and land which would later become six US states, including Kansas, Wyoming and Oregon, helping the US to implement its goal of Manifest Destiny - building a nation spanning the North American continent.Comments back to top
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