Lowes Cato Dickinson
Lowes Cato Dickinson | |
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Born | 27 November 1819 |
Died | 15 December 1908 (aged 89) Portland Place, London, England |
Nationality | British |
Known for | Portrait painting |
Lowes Cato Dickinson (27 November 1819 – 15 December 1908) was an English portrait painter and
Life
Dickinson was born in Kilburn, London and was one of eleven siblings. He obtained his first apprenticeship with his father, a Bond Street lithographer and art publisher, after attending Topsham School, and Dr Lord's School in Tooting.[3] After his father's death in 1849, he became a partner with his two eldest brothers, Gilbert Bell Dickinson and William Robert Dickinson, in the firm of Dickinson Brothers of Bond Street. As well as continuing to publish lithographs, the firm were photographers, by appointment to Queen Victoria, and many of Dickinson's portraits were painted from photographs (when portraits were required of people too busy to sit for them, abroad, or dead). Dickinson frequently painted only the faces, with other artists hired to paint the clothes. Some of Dickinson's group pictures were also "subscription pictures", in which people would pay to have themselves portrayed more or less prominently in the painting.[4]
He corresponded and worked with the central participants of the
With other Christian Socialists, Dickinson founded the
Other subjects for portraits included
Dickinson married Margaret Ellen Williams in 1857. Their sons were writer Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson and the accountant Arthur Lowes Dickinson;[11] they also had five daughters. He died in a house built for himself in All Souls Place just north of Oxford Circus, and was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery. His papers are at Princeton,[1] Oxford and Cambridge Universities.[7]
Legacy
Dickinson has numerous paintings in the
References
- ^ a b c "Lowes Cato Dickinson Correspondence, 1851-1907". Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
- ^ a b Lowes Cato Dickinson, National Portrait Gallery, accessed January 2010
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32818. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Dickinson Brothers".
- ^ Gladstone's Cabinet of 1868, Lowes Cato Dickinson, ref. NPG 5116, National Portrait Gallery, London, accessed January 2010
- ISBN 0807815918. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
- ^ a b Artists' Papers Register, accessed January 2010
- ^ a b J. F. C. Harrison ,A History of the Working Men's College (1854-1954), Routledge Kegan Paul, 1954
- ^ Charles Kingsley, National Portrait Gallery, accessed January 2010
- ISBN 978-0-8018-8011-7. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
- ^ "Fisher College of Business - The Accounting Hall of Fame".
- ^ Lowes Dickinson Award Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, accessed August 2010
Sources
Macmillan, George Augustin (1912). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
. InExternal links
- 56 artworks by or after Lowes Cato Dickinson at the Art UK site
Media related to Lowes Cato Dickinson at Wikimedia Commons