Sir Edward Elgar, Bt (1857-1934), Composer and conductor
Sitter in 17 portraits
Largely self-taught, Elgar came to prominence in the 1890s with high-profile commissions including the Imperial March for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee (1897). He established his reputation with his Enigma Variations, 1899, a series of musical portraits of his wife and friends. His reputation was confirmed the following year with The Dream of Gerontius. Elgar's other works include the Pomp and Circumstance marches, 1901-7, the Violin Concerto, 1910, and the Cello Concerto, 1919, compositions which have won him renewed popularity, and a vast audience, in recent years. He was knighted in 1904 and appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.
by Percival Hedley
bronze bust, 1905
On display in Room 29 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2219
by Sir William Rothenstein
chalk, 1917
NPG 3868
by Sir William Rothenstein
chalk, circa 1919
NPG 5707
by Herbert Lambert
bromide print, 1933
NPG P107
by Charles Frederick Grindrod
bromide print, circa 1903
NPG x11894
by Edgar Thomas Holding
platinum print, circa 1905
NPG x11905
by Edgar Thomas Holding
platinum print, circa 1905
NPG x11906
published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
postcard print, circa 1905
NPG x11904
Algernon Henry Blackwood; Sir Edward Elgar, Bt
by Ernest Walter Histed
platinum print, circa 1915
NPG x19029
by Herbert Lambert
photogravure, circa 1922
NPG Ax7741
by Herbert Lambert
postcard print, circa 1922
NPG x14360
Yehudi Menuhin and Sir Edward Elgar, Bt
by Aram Alban
bromide print, circa 1930
NPG x20671
by Herbert Lambert, for Elliott & Fry
whole-plate copy glass negative, 1942
NPG x82023
by Breitkopf & Hartel
postcard print
NPG x17025
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after Samuel Begg
relief halftone, published 24 October 1908
NPG D42284
by Herbert Lambert, for Elliott & Fry
half-plate copy glass negative, 1942
NPG x82022
Malvern Museum, Worcester, Worcestershire
The Elgar Birthplace Museum, Worcester, worcestershire
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