Thomas Carlyle facts for kids

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish writer, essayist, historian and social reformer. He lived most of his later life in London, England, and is sometimes also called the 'Sage of Chelsea' after the neighbourhood where he lived there.

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  Birthplace of Thomas Carlyle, Ecclefechan

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  Carlyle's home at 4 (now 33) Ampton Street, London, marked with a plaque by the London County Council

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  Craigenputtock House, by George Moir, 1829

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  Watercolor sketch of Thomas Carlyle, age 46, by Samuel Laurence

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  Thomas Carlyle in 1854

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  Helen Allingham's 1879 painting of Carlyle

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  Caricature by Ape published in Vanity Fair in 1870

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  Carlyle (left) depicted with Frederick Maurice in Ford Madox Brown's painting Work (1865)

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  Portrait of Carlyle in his garden at Chelsea

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  Carlyle's Grave at Ecclefechan

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  Carlyle painted by John Everett Millais. Froude wrote of this painting: under Millais's hands the old Carlyle stood again upon the canvas as I had not seen him for thirty years. The inner secret of the features had been evidently caught. There was a likeness which no sculptor, no photographer, had yet equaled or approached. Afterward, I knew not how it seemed to fade away.

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  Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle. James McNeill Whistler, 1872–73. Oil on canvas, 171 × 143.5 cm.