Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) Prime Minister

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Whitehall

John Partridge was born in Glasgow. He studied under Thomas Phillips from c.1815 in London. In 1823, he travelled to France and then onto Italy, where he remained until 1827. He later settled in London, living first in Marylebone, before moving to fashionable Grosvenor Square and enjoying the patronage of many aristocrats. A self-portrait shows him in his richly furnished drawing room, surrounded by relatives and his fashionably dressed wife. He was appointed Portrait Painter Extraordinaire to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1842.
Samuel Cousins was a well known mezzotint engraver of portraits and decorative subjects after his contemporaries and 18th-century British artists. Born in Exeter, he was the pupil of, and assistant to, the engraver S. W. Reynolds. Cousins set up his own business in London in 1825 and would later become the first engraver to be elected a Royal Academician. He engraved plates after the foremost artists of his day including Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873), Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) and Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873). His younger brother Henry Cousins (c.1809-1864) was also a mezzotint engraver.

People

Henry John, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Temple (1784 - 1865)

Places

Subjects

bust (as Subject), quill, ink pot/ink stand, paper (as Subject), book, male portrait, 19th century costume, waistcoat, trousers, morning coat, Viscount, Prime Minister, carpet, chair, table (as Subject), state interior

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

John Partridge (1789 - 1872)
Samuel Cousins (1801 - 1887)

Title

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) Prime Minister

Date

1 May 1852

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Origin uncertain

GAC number

14666