“Collections”. National Portrait Gallery.
National Portrait Gallery
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 | 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. 164-74 Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber. 169 |
| 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 | 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. |
| Leisure and Society | Lady Rachel Russell | |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Deborah Moggach |
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,...
National or international item
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.