Life Lowes Cato Dickinson

gladstone s cabinet of 1868, painted lowes cato dickinson. use cursor see who.

he corresponded , worked central participants of pre-raphaelite brotherhood, lecturing both dante gabriel rossetti , john ruskin. had studio in same building john everett millais , taught ford madox brown, worked time @ dickinson brothers. before touring italy 3 years around 1850, had exhibited @ royal academy, @ exhibited every year, except three, between 1848 , 1891.

with other christian socialists, dickinson founded working men s college, london, in 1854, college provide liberal education artisans. enthusiastic follower of christian socialist movement, , painted other christian socialists including charles kingsley, thomas hughes, john malcolm forbes ludlow, john westlake, frederick james furnivall, richard buckley litchfield, john llewelyn davies, , movement s founder, f. d. maurice.

other subjects portraits included queen victoria, prime minister , cabinet, george eliot, , scientists such arthur cayley, william thomson, sir george stokes , james clerk maxwell. maxwell mentions dickinson in poem wrote ridicule cayley, notes portrait merely in 2 dimensions whereas cayley s achievements in n-dimensional space.

dickinson married margaret ellen williams in 1857. sons writer goldsworthy lowes dickinson , accountant arthur lowes dickinson; had 5 daughters. died in house built himself in souls place north of oxford circus, , buried @ kensal green cemetery. papers @ princeton, oxford , cambridge universities.