“Collections”. National Portrait Gallery.
National Portrait Gallery
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Emmeline Pankhurst | A statue in her honour was unveiled in Victoria Tower Gardens on 6 March 1930; Dame Ethel Smyth
conducted The March of the Women at the ceremony. A portrait done by Georgina Brackenbury
hangs in... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | This was John Opie's second marriage; his first wife had deserted him and their marriage had been dissolved by act of parliament. The second marriage remained childless. John Opie had been enjoying professional success in... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Linda Villari | The National Portrait Gallery
has an albumen print (an early photo) of Vincenzo Mazini taken in London nine months before his wedding. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | IT
married American painter and avant-garde photographer Curtis Moffat
. Six portraits by Curtis Moffat hang in the National Portrait Gallery
, London, some of which he created in collaboration with Olivia Wyndham
. The... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Marryat | Herbert McPherson
, whom her will calls a friend and companion during many years of unbroken affection, remains a mystery in FM
's life. qtd. in Neisius, Jean Gano. Acting the Role of Romance: Text and Subtext in the Work of Florence Marryat. Texas Christian University, May 1992. 74 |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Colin Campbell | Considered déclassée by high society, LCC
found her way into more liberal, artistic circles. She associated with the artist Whistler
(who painted a portrait, now lost) and with writers George Bernard Shaw
and Henry James |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Josephine Tey | Through an innovative blend of historical scholarship and detective fiction, the novel exonerates Richard III
for the murder of the little Princes in the Tower, pinning the crime on Henry VII
. JT
's... |
| Leisure and Society | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was painted several times. The National Portrait Gallery
has a portrait of her and her husband by Ford Madox Brown
, commissioned by family friend and politician Sir Charles Dilke
and painted in 1874... |
| Leisure and Society | Cicely Hamilton | A striking photographic portrait of CH
by Lena Connell
, taken in 1912, is now in the National Portrait Gallery
. Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing, 2007. 78 |
| Leisure and Society | Anne Finch | AF
was painted in a miniature by Peter Cross
(now in the National Portrait Gallery
) round about 1690. She left another, later miniature of her by Zincke
in her will to Lady Hertford
... |
| Leisure and Society | Elinor James | EJ
had her portrait painted by an unknown artist (the canvas now resides at the National Portrait Gallery
), wearing a red silk dress and displaying several of her publications including a splendidly bound copy... |
| Leisure and Society | Charlotte Lennox | This portrait was engraved in the 1770s by Henry Richard Cook
, and by Francesco Bartolozzi
for S. and E. Harding
's abortive 1793 edition of her Shakespear Illustrated. The painting itself does not... |
| Leisure and Society | Jane Austen | Meanwhile the Rice portrait (so called from the family which now owns it) emerged into the light of scholarly controversy. This attractive full-length painting shows a lively, intelligent-looking adolescent girl, dark in colouring, wearing a... |
| Leisure and Society | Grace Lady Mildmay | The National Portrait Gallery
holds a painting of GLM
as an imposing, unbending figure, her hand possessively placed on a stack of her wrirings. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Leisure and Society | Jane Austen | In December 2011 a more formal portrait came before the public as representing Austen. Dated by the (extremely stylish) clothes to about 1815, this drawing in graphite or plumbago on vellum shows a seated woman... |
Timeline
1770 or 1771: Scottish painter George Romney did a portrait...
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1770 or 1771
Scottish painter George Romney
did a portrait of English painter Mary Moser
which shows her using the medium of oils, mark of the professional rather than the amateur.
“Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings”. National Portrait Gallery.
1856: The National Portrait Gallery was founded,...
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1856
The National Portrait Gallery
was founded, largely through the advocacy of Lord Stanhope
, who was president of the Society of Arts at the time.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
270
Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
36
National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp.
1857: The Department of Practical Art constructed...
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1857
The Department of Practical Art
constructed a facility on eighty-seven acres of land in South Kensington.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
10: 270
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
By February 1984: The National Portrait Gallery in London recognised...
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By February 1984
The National Portrait Gallery
in London recognised the historical character of the contemporary century by opening new Twentieth Century Galleries, devoted to that period exclusively.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(6 February 1984): 13
9 December 2006-17 July 2007: The National Portrait Gallery in London mounted...
Writing climate item
9 December 2006-17 July 2007
The National Portrait Gallery
in London mounted an exhibition of photographs of women writers, mostly novelists, from 1920 to 1960.
“Women writers through the lens”. Mslexia, No. 33, Apr. 2007, p. 7.
7
13 March 2008: The National Portrait Gallery in London opened...
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13 March 2008
The National Portrait Gallery
in London opened an exhibition entitled Brilliant Women, featuring paintings and rarely seen portraits, satirical prints and personal artefacts of the Bluestocking Circle.
“Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings”. National Portrait Gallery.
Texts
Eger, Elizabeth, and Lucy Peltz. Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings. National Portrait Gallery, 2008.
Skipwith, Joanna, and Katie Bent. The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and 1930s. National Portrait Gallery, 1994.
Walvin, James et al. “Ignatius Sancho: The Man and His Times”. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, National Portrait Gallery, 1997, pp. 93-113.