LINDLEY

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.