Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Thomas Lewis Atkinson was a line and mezzotint engraver, based in London. He was a pupil of the well-known mezzotint engraver Samuel Cousins (1801-1887). Atkinson exhibited 41 works at the Royal Academy between 1857 and 1889. He mainly engraved portraits and sentimental subjects after works by contemporary artists, such as John Everett Millais and George Richmond.
Edwin Longsden Long was born in Bath. He enrolled at James Matthew Leigh’s School of Art in London in 1846, returning to Bath to begin his career. In 1857, he moved back to London. A trip to Spain with painter John Phillip had a lasting effect on Long and for some 17 years his work showed a Spanish influence. In 1874 he travelled through Egypt and Syria; resulting in the painting ‘Babylonian Marriage Market’ (1875). Following the work’s critical acclaim, Long specialised in well-researched depictions of the ancient world. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1881 and Agnew & Sons commissioned several works, including a series of paintings to coincide with the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. He died of pneumonia at his home in Hampstead, aged 61.

People

Northcote, Stafford Henry, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh

Places

Subjects

male portrait, beard, 19th century costume, frock coat, financier, Secretary of State for India, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Member of Parliament, Foreign Secretary, President of the Board of Trade

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

Thomas Lewis Atkinson (1817 - 1889/90)
Edwin Longsden Long (1829 - 1891)

Title

Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887) politician

Date

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Transferred from HM Treasury, April 1992

Inscription

below publication lettering: [left; artist's signature] 'Edwin Long', in pencil; [right; engraver's signature] 'T L Atkinson', in pencil

GAC number

16789