C.L.Eastlake
(17
November 1793 24 December 1865) was an English painter, gallery
director, collector and writer of the early 19th century. In 1843 he
became the National Gallery's first Keeper in 1843,
W.C.Ross
(3 June 1794 20 Jan 1860) was an English portrait and portrait
miniature painter of Scottish descent; early in his career, he was
known for historical paintings. He became a member of the Royal
Academy in 1842.[1] The Westminster Hall competition of 1843 led him
to turn his hand once more to historical composition.
Daniel
Maclise
(25 January 1806 25 April 1870) was an Irish history, literary and
portrait painter, and illustrator, who worked for most of his life in
London, England. Maclise was commissioned in 1846 to paint murals in
the House of Lords on such subjects as Justice and Chivalry.[
Soloman
Alexander Hart 1806-1881
was a British painter and engraver. He was the first Jewish member of
the Royal Academy in London and was probably the most important Jewish
artist working in England in the 19th century. A member of the Camden
Society
Charles
R.Leslie RA (19 October 1794 5 May 1859)
was an English genre painter. Painted Amy Robsart 1833-1836 -
actress in the play ( see envelope.) Amy Robsart was acted February
13, 1828, at the Odιon, under the management of M. Sauvage. Although
it was agreed that Victor Hugo's name should not be pronounced, some
chance phrase or some indiscretion betrayed him, and the manager,
overjoyed, lost no time in spreading the report that the drama was
written by the author of Cromwell. Victor Hugo remonstrated in vain;
the manager, seeing that the name was a drawing card, continued to cry
it from the house-tops.
Leslie
spent time in America, his parent birth place, but was in England to
witness and paint Queen Victoria's coronation. Various small
landscapes followed. After the death of his friend, the painter John
Constable, Leslie collected materials and wrote the first biography on
the painter, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable in 1843
Hogg
- Unknown
Sir
Thomas Lawrence PRA
FRS (13 April 1769 7 January 1830)
was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the
Royal Academy.
Sydney
Smirke (1798 8 December 1877)
was a British architect who was born in London, England, the younger
brother of Sir Robert Smirke, also an architect. Their father, also
Robert Smirke, had been a well-known 18th-century painter. He wrote to
Godfrey Wentworth recommending Aglio
Harrison
William Weir
(5 May 1824 3 January 1906), known as "The Father of the
Cat Fancy", was an English gentleman and artist. He wrote to John
Absolon
Prince
Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
The Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge KG GCB GCMG GCH PC (Adolphus
Frederick; 24 February 1774 8 July 1850), was the 10th child and
7th son of George III and Queen Charlotte.
Earl
of Shrewsbury - Alton Towers
John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, 16th Earl of Waterford
(17911852) was a British peer and aristocrat. Sometimes known as
"Good Earl John", he has been described as "the most
prominent British Catholic of his day", although he was the last
Earl of Shrewsbury to follow the Catholic faith. John was also Lord
High Steward of Ireland, an office the Earls of Shrewsbury have held
since 1446.
Eyre
Crowe (18241910)
was an English painter, principally of historical art and genre
scenes, but with an interest in social realism. He was born in London
but grew up in France. He was the eldest son of the journalist Eyre
Evans Crowe and brother of the journalist, diplomat and art historian
Joseph Archer Crowe (whose son, also Eyre Crowe became an important
diplomat)
H.W.Primose
was later a significant member of the Treasury
D.A.Aird
obviously worked in the Treasury
Lady
Warwick The Stables St James Palace
Married to Greville 4th Earl of Warwick. He served as honorary colonel
to the Warwickshire Yeomanry cavalry, and as A.D.C. to Queen Victoria.
Charles
Samuel Keene (10
August 1823 4 January 1891)
was an English artist and illustrator, who worked in black and white.
Worked for the Illustrated London News. maybe did sketches for
Aglio but unlikely to be this artist.
Lady
Cottenham died
1866
was married to Earl of Cottenham, second son of William Pepys related
to Sam Pepys
Sam
Redgrave
Wrote The Dictionary of English Painters Artists 1st and 2nd Edition
George
Raphael Ward
Artist and mezzotint print maker wrote to Aglio about being Chair of
the Institute of Fine Arts
Edward
King, Viscount Kingsborough (16 November 1795 27 February 1837)
was an Irish antiquarian who sought to prove that the indigenous
peoples of the Americas were a Lost Tribe of Israel. His principal
contribution was in making available facsimiles of ancient documents
and some of the earliest explorers' reports on Pre-Columbian ruins and
Maya civilisation.