LINDLEY (John, 1799-1865, Botanist and Horticulturalist, Assistant Librarian to Sir Joseph Banks)

Formal Autograph Letter in the third person to Mr Tupper John Lucas TUPPPER (1824-1879, Member of the Pre-Raphaelites, Sculptor) thanking him”for the tickets to view the cast of the statue of Linnaeus. Dr L wd be further obliged if Mr Tupper wd kindly inform him on what authority the dress, the face and the ‘accoutrements’ have been modelled. The statue is extremely interesting...”, 1 side 8vo., Acton Green, Turnham Green, 13th February

Lindley was assistant secretary to the R.H.S., 1822-1841, Professor of Botany to the Apothecaries’ Company, and wrote ‘The Vegetable Kingdom’, 1846.
In 1840, Tupper was admitted into the Royal Academy, where he met Hunt, Stephens, Collinson, Woolner, and D. G. Rossetti. After leaving the Academy, he was employed as an anatomical designer at Guy's Hospital, where William Michael Rossetti made his acquaintance. Supporting himself with his work at the hospital between 1849 and 1863, Tupper attempted a career as a sculptor. He showed eleven portrait medallions at the annual Royal Academy Exhibitions between 1854 and 1868, and received a commission for his most important sculpture, the "Linnaeus," in 1856. In 1863 Tupper left Guy's Hospital to become a drawing teacher at the University of London, and from 1865 to his death, he served as drawing master at Rugby.

Item Date:  1860

Stock No:  42190      £75

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