Neisius, Jean Gano. Acting the Role of Romance: Text and Subtext in the Work of Florence Marryat. Texas Christian University, may 1992.
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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 | 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. |
| 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 | Linda Villari | The National Portrait Gallery
has an albumen print (an early photo) of Vincenzo Mazini taken in London nine months before his wedding. “Collections”. National Portrait Gallery. |
| 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... |
| 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 | Amelia B. Edwards | In Rome on her way to Egypt, ABE
was sculpted in marble by Percival Ball
. The sculpture is now in the National Portrait Gallery
in London. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Leisure and Society | George Eliot | Exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1867 and now in the National Portrait Gallery
, this was said by those who knew GE
to be the best likeness of her. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996. 275 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968. 378 The portrait may... |
| 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... |
| 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 | Lady Rachel Russell | |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
Timeline
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.
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.
1857
The Department of Practical Art
constructed a facility on eighty-seven acres of land in South Kensington.
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.
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.
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.
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, Reyahn King, Sukhdev Sandhu, James Walvin, and Jane Girdham. “Ignatius Sancho: The Man and His Times”. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, National Portrait Gallery, 1997, pp. 93-113.