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Sealous exhibited the painting in a building off Trafalgar Square in May 1852 and it became one of the best-known images of the Great Exhibition due to the prints made from it. Today it is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, which was built from the proceeds of the Great Exhibition, and was acquired in 1889. [4]
Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort, was an enthusiastic promoter of the self-financing exhibition; the government was persuaded to form the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to establish the viability of hosting such an exhibition. Queen Victoria visited three times with her family, and 34 times on her own. [5]
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The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in its 990,000-square-foot (92,000 m 2) exhibition space to display examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution.
The Opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria by Henry Courtney Selous. Great Exhibition in The Crystal Palace is opened on 1 May. February–March – brief resignation of government and Cabinet crisis over passage of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act. March – sculptor Frederick Scott Archer makes public the wet plate collodion ...
Victorian painting refers to the distinctive styles of painting in the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). Victoria's early reign was characterised by rapid industrial development and social and political change, which made the United Kingdom one of the most powerful and advanced nations in the world.
The Conservative Wall at Chatsworth. Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Liberal Member of Parliament. He is best known for designing the Crystal Palace, which was built in Hyde Park, London to house the Great Exhibition of 1851, the first world's fair, and for cultivating the Cavendish banana, the most consumed banana in the ...
Victoria and Albert Museum, London The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 is an 1850 oil painting by the English artist Henry Wyndham Phillips . [ 1 ] A conversation piece , it depicts portraits of the various member of the Royal Commission established to oversee the Great Exhibition held in Hyde Park the following year.