John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852-1925), Field Marshal
Sitter in 13 portraits
Born at Ripple in Kent, French had a distinguished career in the Sudan, in the expedition to relieve General Gordon at Khartoum, and in South Africa where he relieved the siege of Kimberly. As Commander-in-Chief, Aldershot, from 1902, he was responsible for the total reform of military manoeuvres. He became Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1912 and in 1914 held supreme command of the British Expeditionary Force in France. Failure to break the German line at the Battles of Ypres and Loos, saw him succeeded by Sir Douglas Haig on the Western Front in 1915. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Home Forces until the end of the war, and became Lord Lieutenant in Ireland in 1918.
John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres
by John Singer Sargent
oil on canvas, circa 1919-1922
On display in Room 30 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2654
General Officers of World War I
by John Singer Sargent
oil on canvas, 1922
On display in Room 30 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1954
John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres
by John Singer Sargent
pencil, circa 1922
NPG 2908(11)
John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres
by Sidney Cooper Weston, for Lambert Weston & Son
cabinet card, 1890s
NPG x39349
John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres
by Christina Broom
bromide print on card mount, 1910s
NPG x27570
'F.M. Sir John French, with A.D.C.'s. Commander in Chief in France'
published by Realistic Travels
printing-out paper stereoscopic card, 1914-1918
NPG x26381
John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres with his aides-de-camp
published by Realistic Travels
albumen stereoscopic card, circa 1914
NPG x134378
Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre; John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres
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by Unknown photographer, and by Unknown photographer
hand-coloured bromide prints, published 1914
NPG x137270
John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1918
NPG x21920
John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres
supplement to Illustrated London News, after John St Helier Lander
photogravure, after 1908
NPG D36275
John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres
by Unknown artist
lithograph, circa 1913-1915
NPG D36274
John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres
by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
bromide print, circa 1916
NPG Ax39002
John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass copy negative, October 1944 (1918)
NPG x169687
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