David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Edward Everett, 1794 - 1865. Unitarian clergyman; President of Harvard College; Minister for the United States in Britain, 1841 - 1845 [a]
![David Octavius Hill, Edward Everett, 1794 - 1865. Unitarian clergyman; President of Harvard College; Minister for the United States in Britain, 1841 - 1845 [a]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/111525.jpg?itok=hoYMQO1R)
About this artwork
A distinguished scholar, respected politician and statesman, and brilliant orator, Edward Everett enjoyed a long and influential career in public life. This calotype was taken at the British Association meeting in York, when Everett was the American ambassador to Great Britain. He later became US secretary of state for a brief period from 1852, before entering the US Senate.
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title:Edward Everett, 1794 - 1865. Unitarian clergyman; President of Harvard College; Minister for the United States in Britain, 1841 - 1845 [a]
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date created:30 September 1844
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materials:Calotype negative (and modern print)
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measurements:21.50 x 16.00 cm
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credit line:Elliot Collection, bequeathed 1950
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accession number:PGP HA 840
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David Octavius Hill
David Octavius Hill
A painter and a lithographer by training, David Octavius Hill is best remembered for the beauty of the calotypes he and Robert Adamson produced together. Hill was a sociable and kind-hearted man who did much to support the arts in Scotland and between 1830 and 1836 he was the unpaid Secretary of...
