Lowes Cato Dickinson
Lowes Cato Dickinson (born November 27, 1819 in Kilburn , London , † December 15, 1908 in Middlesex , London) was a British lithographer and portrait painter .
Life
He was the fourth of eleven children and the second oldest son of the bookseller and lithographer Joseph Dickinson , who had his shop at 114 New Bond Street , and Ann Rowden Carter . The family was originally from Northumbria . After completing his education at Topsham School and Dr. Lord's School in Tooting began Dickinson, who showed artistic talent at a young age, to work for his father at the age of 16 (1831) and also to learn from him. As early as 1848 he exhibited his first pictures in the London Royal Academy of Arts .
It was not until he was 31 that he went on a three-year study trip to Italy and Sicily in 1850 and began painting there . On his return he rented a studio in Langham Chambers (Portland Place, Marylebone ) in London and has since worked as a freelance painter. Since then he has had contact with the most important members of the London Pre-Raphaelite Artists' Association , especially with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Ruskin .
He was an avid supporter of the Christian Socialist movement , portraying some of its members and also Frederick Denison Maurice , the movement's founder. In 1854 he founded Working Men's College , a liberal school for budding artists, with attorney Thomas Hughes , author Charles Kingsley, and others . Together with John Ruskin, Dickinson led the first class for art education at the new college .
Dickinson had long since become a painter of the Victorian upper class. But those portrayed by him also included Queen Victoria and Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone , his entire cabinet , many writers such as George Eliot , the politician Richard Cobden , lawyers and clergymen such as George Tomlinson , the Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar , as well as many scientists and scholars. Dickinson showed his pictures regularly at the Royal Academy until 1891.
Dickinson married on October 15, 1857 Margaret Ellen Williams (1826-1881), daughter of William Smith Williams (1800-1875), literary advisor and editor at Smith, Elder & Co. and discoverer of the writer Charlotte Brontë . This marriage came from the financial expert and auditor ( Certified Public Accountant ) Sir Arthur Lowes Dickinson (1859-1935) and the historian and philosopher Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862-1932) and five daughters.
In 1860 he was the co-founder and treasurer of the Freikorps Artists Rifles Volunteer Corps . In 1864 he moved the family to Spring Cottage, Hanwell in Middlesex . During these years he ran two lithography and photo studios under the company name "Dickinson Brothers" with his brothers William Robert Dickinson (1815–1887) and Gilbert Bell Dickinson (1825–1908), one in his father's business until March 5, 1867 in London (114 New Bond Street) and one in Brighton (first 70 King's Road, from 1865 then 107 King's Road). From 1879 until his death, he lived in his home at 1 All Souls Place , Langham Place, Hanwell. He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery .
His estate is now kept in the archives of Princeton , Oxford and Cambridge Universities . Many of his paintings are now in the National Portrait Gallery in London. The Working Men's College announces the Lowes Dickinson Award, endowed with £ 1,000 each year . His children also donated the Lowes Dickinson Memorial Studentship Award for Art Students in his memory.
literature
- Dickinson, Lowes Cato . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 217 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Shannon R. McBriar: Dickinson, Lowes Cato (1819-1908). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . 2004, doi: 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 32818 (excerpt).
- Maria Rossetti: Lowes Cato Dickinson. In: Andrea Rose (Ed.): Pre-Raphaelite portraits. Oxford Illustrated Press, 1981, ISBN 0-902280-74-0 , p. 39 ( books.google.de excerpt).
Web links
- Detailed biography with pictures
- Picture gallery
- Lowes Cato Dickinson - Works in the National Portrait Gallery (London)
- Short biographies
- Estate in the Princeton University Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Lowes Cato Dickinson: Letters from Italy. 1850-1853.
- ↑ Working Men's College ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The London Gazette . January 3, 1868.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dickinson, Lowes Cato |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British lithographer and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kilburn , London |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1908 |
| Place of death | Middlesex , London |