Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) Lord Chancellor

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand

James Lonsdale was born in Lancaster. He became a pupil of George Romney and a student at the Royal Academy. He first exhibited at the Academy in 1802. On the death of John Opie in 1807, Lonsdale purchased Opie’s house in Berners Street, where he resided for the rest of his life. He was one of the founders of the Society of British Artists. He was also Portrait Painter in Ordinary to the Duke of Sussex and Queen Caroline and a portrait painter to the Beefsteak Society. He painted ‘King John signing the Magna Carta’ for the Duke of Norfolk at Arundel Castle and painted the Emperor of Russia, the King of the Belgians and Archduke Maximilian of Austria. Lonsdale died in Berners Street in January 1839. He left a widow and three sons.
Engraver Thomas Goff Lupton was born in Clerkenwell, London; the son of a goldsmith. He trained under engraver George Clint. Lupton produced the first soft steel plates, able to print considerably more copies than copper plates, for which he was awarded the ‘Isis medal’ of the Society of Arts in 1822. He was employed by J. M. W. Turner on ‘Liber Studiorum’ (1807-19) and in 1825 six of his plates after Turner were published as ‘Views of the Ports of England’; reissued with six more as ‘The Harbours of England’ (1856 ; text by Ruskin). Lupton engraved numerous portraits after artists including Lawrence and Reynolds, and also exhibited pastels at the Royal Academy. He was elected President of the Artists' Annuity Fund (1836). He died aged 81.

People

Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Brougham (1778 - 1868)

Places

Subjects

male portrait, lawyer, Member of Parliament, Lord Chancellor

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

James Lonsdale (1777 - 1839)
Thomas Goff Lupton (1791 - 1873)

Title

Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) Lord Chancellor

Date

1 January 1882

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Origin uncertain

GAC number

17215