Emmeline Pankhurst
(1858-1928), Suffragette leaderSitter in 17 portraits
Leader of the militant wing of the suffragists' movement for the enfranchisement of women, Emmeline founded the Women's Social and Political Union with her eldest daughter Christabel in 1903. Another daughter, Sylvia, designed the members' card and painted the 'Votes for Women' banners. All of them were imprisoned in Holloway Prison on numerous occasions between 1908 and 1913, and released after hunger strikes. During the war Emmeline and Christabel observed the militants' truce. Partial enfranchisement came in 1918 to men aged twenty-one and women over the age of thirty, after a war that had relied on women to fill the place of men at work. Universal suffrage had to wait another decade.
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acrylic on paper collaged on panels, 2021-2022
On display in Room 33 on Floor 0 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 7145
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for Daily Mirror
bromide press print, 1906
NPG x139878
by Lena Connell (later Beatrice Cundy)
toned bromide postcard print, circa 1907
On display at The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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by Lena Connell (later Beatrice Cundy)
toned bromide postcard print, circa 1907
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Emmeline Pankhurst addressing a crowd in Trafalgar Square
by Central Press
bromide press print, October 1908
On display in Room 24 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x131784
'Mrs Pankhurst arrested in Victoria Street, February 13 1908'
published by The Photochrom Co Ltd
halftone postcard print, 1908
NPG x200694
by Elliott & Fry, copied by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, copied 9 June 1965 (circa 1910)
NPG x176282
by Underwood & Underwood
vintage print, 1910s
NPG x194159
by Christina Broom
bromide print, 1910s
NPG x6194
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson; Emmeline Pankhurst
by Unknown photographer
bromide press print, 18 November 1910
NPG x32106
by Wilfred Dennis Moss
bromide postcard print, 1911
NPG x46491
by Daily Mirror
bromide press print, 11 October 1913
NPG x32604
Emmeline Pankhurst's arrest at Buckingham Palace
by Central Press
vintage print, 22 May 1914
NPG x137688
Emmeline Pankhurst's arrest at Buckingham Palace
by Unknown photographer
vintage print, 21 May 1914
NPG x137689
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1920s
NPG x4332
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1920s
NPG x6195
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