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Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

(1804-1881), Prime Minister and novelist; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery

Sitter associated with 112 portraits
Disraeli was a Tory statesman, becoming Prime Minister in 1868 and again, for a longer period, in 1874. He was born in London into a wealthy Jewish-Italian family and started out as a solicitor before becoming an eccentric writer who dressed in ostentatious clothes. During his time in government, he introduced legislation designed to improve the conditions of the working class, although its success was limited. He also undertook an aggressive imperial policy, including audaciously purchasing a controlling interest for Britain in the Suez Canal in Egypt, which provided the British with a pathway to its colony, India.

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Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, by Carlo Pellegrini - NPG 6659

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

by Carlo Pellegrini
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 30 January 1869
NPG 6659

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, by Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower - NPG 652

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

by Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower
plaster cast of statuette, 1878-1879
NPG 652

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt - NPG 3241

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
oil on canvas, 1881
On display in Room 19 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3241

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, by William Lockhart Bogle, after  Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt - NPG 925

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

by William Lockhart Bogle, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
oil on canvas, 1892, based on a work of 1881
NPG 925

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, by Robert Glassby, cast by  John Theodore Tussaud - NPG 2655

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

by Robert Glassby, cast by John Theodore Tussaud
wax cast of death-mask, 1933, based on a work of 1881
NPG 2655

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt - NPG 1760

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
plaster cast of statuette, 1881
NPG 1760

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt - NPG 860

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
plaster cast of bust, circa 1881
NPG 860

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, printed by Henry Lenthall, after  William Edward Kilburn - NPG Ax17734

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

printed by Henry Lenthall, after William Edward Kilburn
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864-1877 (early 1860s)
NPG Ax17734

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