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In 1830, William IV succeeded his brother George IV as King of the United Kingdom. Upon his death in 1837, his 18-year-old niece, Princess Victoria . [ 11 ] Under Salic law , the Kingdom of Hanover passed to William's brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland , ending the personal union of Britain and Hanover which had existed since 1714 .
This is a list of photographs considered the most important in surveys where authoritative sources review the history of the medium not limited by time period, region, genre, topic, or other specific criteria. These images may be referred to as the most important, most iconic, or most influential—but they are all considered key images in the ...
A. Andreas Leigh Aabel; Benjamin Vaughan Abbott; Burroughs Abbott; Joseph Henry Abbott; Robert Abbott (New South Wales politician) Abdulaziz; Alfred Ablett
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy.A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at the Bear Hotel in the Market Square.
1830 Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), painter; Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon (1830–1906), painter; Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), photographer; Granville Perkins (1830–1895), painter, engraver; John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910), sculptor; 1831 Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett (1831–1898), political portrait painter; Hermann Ottomar Herzog ...
Andrew Weil (born 1942), celebrity doctor and alternative medicine advocate; Gayraud Wilmore (1921–2020), writer, historian, ethicist, educator, and theologian; Walter E. Williams (1936–2020), economist, commentator, and academic; Harris Wofford (1926–2019), Peace Corps director, Bryn Mawr College president, U.S. Senator appointee
(1830–1901) Richard Copley Christie, lawyer and academic, was born in Lenton, Nottingham. (1863–1949) Frederick Kipping, noted research chemist, was professor of chemistry at University College, Nottingham in 1897–1936.
Eugène Delacroix – Liberty Leading the People [3] William Etty — Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed; Sarah Goodridge – Self-portrait; Francesco Hayez – Venus Playing with Two Doves (Portrait of the Ballerina Carlotta Chabert) Franz Krüger – Parade in the Opernplatz ...