National Portrait Gallery

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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.
qtd. in
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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The National Portrait Gallery in London holds one engraving...
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.
“Collections”. National Portrait Gallery.
Linda Mazini (later LV ) gave birth to her first daughter, Costanza Maria Orsola Mazini
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...
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 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 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...
Leisure and Society Noel Streatfeild
The National Portrait Gallery holds a painting of NS done in 1926 by Lewis Baumer , in profile, which shows her looking cool and elegant and modern.
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 Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB was in general unwilling to have any picture made of her (which casts some doubt on the six images said to be of her in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery ). But...
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.
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A perceptive acquaintance said, Mary paints as if she were writing.
Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973.
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She was painted...
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

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.
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Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
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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.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 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...

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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.
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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.