“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 | Mary Berry | Anne Damer
, who broke new ground for women by her serious pursuit of a career as a sculptor, on 6 December 1793 completed a terracotta bust of MB
(now in the National Portrait Gallery |
| Leisure and Society | Mary Stott | MS
studied singing for years, flirted with painting (as she put it), and had an enduring love-affair with gardening. Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973. 164-74 Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973. 169 |
| Leisure and Society | Iris Murdoch | The painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
did a portrait of IM
in 1964, commissioned by St Anne's College
. Years later Tom Phillips
painted her for the National Portrait Gallery
, posed in front of Titian |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Burnet | Sir Godfrey Kneller
painted EB
's portrait (now in the National Portrait Gallery
) in this same year. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Leisure and Society | P. D. James | The Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery
commissioned a painting of PDJ
, and she was asked to choose the artist. She enjoyed the thirteen sittings it took for the young painter of her choice,... |
| Leisure and Society | Lady Rachel Russell | |
| Leisure and Society | Jane Collier | JC
may have had her portrait painted. A mezzotint by J. Faber, Jr
, now in the National Portrait Gallery
, has been identified as her, but on very inadequate evidence. |
| Leisure and Society | Hester Lynch Piozzi | The National Portrait Gallery
lists twelve portraits of HLP
, dated 1781 to 1811 (though some of these derive from each other and a couple are conversation-piece prints). Sir Joshua Reynolds
painted her with her... |
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.