Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
by N. Sanders, published by Henry Graves & Co, after Sir Francis Grant
mezzotint, published 18 October 1864
17 1/2 in. x 12 1/2 in. (444 mm x 316 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1956
Reference Collection
NPG D40637
Sitterback to top
- Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne (1812-1895), Lord Chancellor; lawyer. Sitter associated with 35 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Sir Francis Grant (1803-1878), Portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Artist or producer associated with 116 portraits, Sitter associated with 21 portraits.
- Henry Graves & Co (active 1844-1899), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 257 portraits.
- N. Sanders (active 1864), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
Events of 1864back to top
Current affairs
First of the Contagious Diseases Act. These acts allowed for the arrest, medical inspection and confinement of any woman suspected of being a prostitute in the port towns. Following huge public outcry over their discrimination against women, notably led by Josephine Butler, leader of the Ladies' National Association, the acts were eventually repealed.Octavia Hill starts work on slums, and the International Working Men's Association is founded in London.
Art and science
The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell presents his discoveries in the field of electromagnetics to the Royal Society. His paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field expresses the basic laws of electricity and magnetism in unified fashion. Maxwell's equations, as his rules came to be known, helped create modern physics, laying the foundation for future work in special relativity and quantum mechanics.International
Austria and Prussia combine forces to seize Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.Britain cedes Corfu, acquired from France in the Second Treaty of Paris (1815) to Greece. Although Britain had vigorously suppressed an uprising in 1849 in Cephalonia aiming to restore Iolian islands, the government changed policy throughout the 1850s and 60s.
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