Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (1797-1863)

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Henry Perronet Briggs was born in Walworth, south-east London. His father held a senior position in the Post Office. He was 14 when two of his drawings were published in ‘The Gentleman’s Magazine’. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1811 and in 1813 moved to Cambridge, where he painted portraits of scholars. In the following year, he returned to London. Briggs exhibited 19 historical and Shakespearean subjects at the British Institution (1819-30) and was elected a Royal Academician in 1832; from then concentrating on portraiture. In 1838 he was in first place in the ‘Fraser’s Magazine’ list of ‘Best Victorian Painters’. However, Briggs and his wife, Elizabeth, became infected with tuberculosis; Elizabeth dying in 1839, Briggs in 1844.
Charles Turner was born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire; the son of an excise officer. At a young age he moved to London, where he was apprenticed to engraver John Jones and studied at the Royal Academy schools. He later produced work in mezzotint, aquatint and stipple for publishers in London and Scotland. He also began publishing his own prints in 1796. In 1812 he was appointed Engraver-in-Ordinary to George III. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1828. Throughout his career he is thought to have produced 638 portrait engravings and over 300 subject engravings. These were generally made after works by contemporary artists, such as Raeburn, Lawrence and J. M. W. Turner, with whom the engraver enjoyed a long standing friendship.

People

Constantine, 1st Marquess of Normanby Phipps (1797 - 1863)

Places

Subjects

male portrait, 19th century costume, coat, cravat, Earl, Marquess, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Home Secretary, Secretary of State for War, diplomat, column

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

Henry Perronet Briggs (1791/93 - 1844)
Charles Turner (1774 - 1857)

Title

Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (1797-1863)

Date

published 2 January 1836

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Purchased 1992

GAC number

15943