John Lucas Tupper
John Lucas Tupper (c. 1824 – 29 September 1879) was an English artist, poet, and early member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle.
Biography
John Lucas Tupper was born at Stoke Newington, London, the son of the lithographer George Frederick Tupper. He attended the Royal Academy of Arts from about 1844 and at the same time became an anatomical draftsman at Guy's Hospital. This not only provided an income but reflected his lifelong interest in science. In 1865, he became master of geometrical and scientific drawing at Rugby School. He married Annie Amelia French on 31 December 1871.
Tupper was close friend to William Holman Hunt (later godfather to one of his children[1]) and to William Michael Rossetti who edited a published volume of his poems in 1897.
He contributed letters and articles to The Germ, The Crayon,[2] The Portfolio and other periodicals.[3]
Works
- Hiatus: The Void in Modern Education, Its Causes and Antidote. London: Macmillan (1869; under the pen name "Outis")
- The "True Story" of Mrs. Stowe. London: Mann Nephews (1869; under the pen name "Outis")
- "On an Optical Illusion," The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Vol. XXXIX, No. 263 (1870): 423–28.
- "Thomas Woolner, A.R.A.," The Portfolio, Vol. II (1871): 97–101.
- "Henry Hugh Armstead," The Portfolio, Vol. II (1871): 129–34.
- "W. Cave Thomas," The Portfolio, Vol. II (1871): 149–53.
- "On the Center of Motion in the Human Eye," Royal Society Proceedings, Vol. XXII (1874): 429–30.
Notes
- ↑ Named Holman after him.
- ↑ Dyson, Stephen L. (2014). The Last Amateur: The Life of William J. Stillman. Albany, NY.: State University of New York Press.
- ↑ Landow, George P. (1986). "A Check List of the Writings of John Lucas Tupper, Friend of the Pre-Raphaelites," The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Vol. VII, pp. 63–68.
References
- Coombs, James H., George P. Landow, Anne Scott, and Arnold Sanders, eds. A Pre-Raphaelite Friendship: The Correspondence of William Holman Hunt and John Lucas Tupper. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press (1986).
- Doughty, Oswald (1960). "A Minor Pre-Raphaelite: John Lucas Tupper," English Miscellany, Vol. XI, pp. 175–210.
- Rosseti, William Michael (1897). "Prefatory Note." In: Poems by the Late John Lucas Tupper. London: Longmans, Green & Co., pp. vii–xi.
