Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
National Portrait Gallery
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | Elizabeth Burnet | Sir Godfrey Kneller
painted EB
's portrait (now in the National Portrait Gallery
) in this same year. |
| 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. 131 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Mary Delany | |
| 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. 275 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 378 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 | 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
... |
| 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. |
| 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 | 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. 78 |
Timeline
1770 or 1771: Scottish painter George Romney did a portrait...
Building item
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...
Building item
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...
Building item
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...
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.
13 March 2008: The National Portrait Gallery in London opened...
Building item
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.