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James Pradier (born Jean-Jacques Pradier, pronounced; 23 May 1790 – 4 June 1852) was a Genevan-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style. Life and work [ edit ] Jean-Baptiste Marie Fouque , Portrait of Pradier, 1848.
1852 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. Boxing Events 21 August — John Morrissey defeats George Thompson in the 11th round at Mare Island, California and claims the Heavyweight Championship of America, which has been vacated by the. ...
1 October – Patent Law Amendment Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, merging the English, Scottish and Irish patent systems. Eglington Pauper Lunatic Asylum opened in Cork. End of the Great Famine. [3] In the period it has lasted since 1845, one million people have emigrated from Ireland.
Julian Alden Weir (August 30, 1852 – December 8, 1919) was an American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich, Connecticut. Weir was also one of the founding members of "The Ten", a loosely allied group of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who banded together in 1898 to ...
She was named after Agamemnon, the King of Mycenae, who led the Greek forces in the Trojan War. She carried an armament of muzzle loading smooth-bore cannon, typical of warships at this time, on two decks. She was completed in 1852. [3] She was not the first British battleship to be completed with steam power; HMS Sans Pareil, a pre-existing ...
George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended ...
Pocahontas. (1852) The first USS Pocahontas, a screw steamer built at Medford, Massachusetts in 1852 as City of Boston, and purchased by the Navy at Boston, Massachusetts on 20 March 1855, was the first United States Navy ship to be named for Pocahontas, the Algonquian wife of Virginia colonist John Rolfe. She was originally commissioned as USS ...
