National Portrait Gallery

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Emmeline Pankhurst
The Fawcett Library (now the Women's Library) in London houses the Suffrage archives, including many of EP 's papers. A sound recording about her, originally an Argo long-playing record, contains a reminiscence by Sybil Thorndike
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
In 2012 AF collaborated with Tanya Cooper to publish through the National Portrait GalleryA Guide to Tudor and Jacobean Portraits.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production A. S. Byatt
ASB continued her interest in Ovid with Arachne, a literary essay, in Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry in early 2000.
Byatt, A. S. “Arachne”. Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry, Chatto and Windus, pp. 131-57.
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In 2001 she edited On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays...
Textual Production Deborah Moggach
Among other journals, DM has contributed to the Daily Telegraph (where the influence of her writer father got her her first English commission, writing book reviews),
McConville, Brigid. “Born to write”. Mslexia, No. 32, pp. 9-12.
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Cosmopolitan, and the Times. For the...
Reception Edith Sitwell
The National Portrait Gallery in London held an exhibition of works on ES and her twobrothers , which more than 30,000 people attended.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Reception Muriel Spark
In about 1984 the Scottish National Portrait Gallery asked MS to sit for her portrait for their collection, by Sandy Moffat . Of the resulting painting MS says: I was just a model for The...
Reception Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Three of Gillray 's cartoons of her are in the National Portrait Gallery .
Occupation Sylvia Pankhurst
An oil portrait of Hardie by SP hangs in the National Portrait Gallery . Another, in chalk, is also extant. She produced at this time a self-portrait, also in the National Portrait Gallery, in which...
Literary responses Katherine Mansfield
After Mansfield's death, Woolf wrote in her diary: it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it.
Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, pp. 25-6.
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KM appears in episodes in more than one novel by her friend...
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 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.
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Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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The portrait may...
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 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 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 Lady Rachel Russell
LRR was often painted, both in youth and age. The original Dictionary of National Biography mentions many portraits; Schwoerer's biography reproduces five. A Kneller at Woburn is reproduced in most editions of her letters; another...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.