Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave)
9 of 10 portraits by Elizabeth (née Rigby), Lady Eastlake
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave)
by Richard James Lane, after Elizabeth (née Rigby), Lady Eastlake
lithograph, 1850
12 1/4 in. x 9 7/8 in. (310 mm x 250 mm) paper size
Given by Austin Lane Poole, 1956
Reference Collection
NPG D22293
Sitterback to top
- Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave) (1774-1850), Artist. Sitter associated with 3 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 75 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Elizabeth (née Rigby), Lady Eastlake (1809-1893), Journalist and writer on art. Artist or producer associated with 10 portraits, Sitter in 11 portraits.
- Richard James Lane (1800-1872), Sculptor and lithographer. Artist or producer associated with 1226 portraits, Sitter in 6 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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