Théobald Chartran ('T')
(1849-1907), Painter and caricaturistArtist associated with 86 portraits
French-born Theobald Chartran began his study of art in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel and later attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He gained a reputation as a painter of historical tableaux and won a number of commissions to paint French government buildings. After 1880, Chartran concentrated on portrait painting and became one of the favourite portraitists of elegant society. In the 1870s and 1880s he was one of an international group of artists who worked for Vanity Fair, producing caricatures of many of the leading characters of the day. He signed these works 'T'. He travelled to the United States in 1893 and made annual portrait-painting visits thereafter, until the end of his life.
Sir William Thackeray Marriott ('Statesmen. No. 420.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 24 March 1883
NPG D44113
Sir Charles James Freake, 1st Bt ('Men of the Day. No. 279.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 31 March 1883
NPG D44114
Julian Pauncefote, Baron Pauncefote ('Men of the Day. No. 280.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 7 April 1883
NPG D44115
Charles Baring ('Men of the Day. No. 281')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 14 April 1883
NPG D44116
Ralph Vivian ('Men of the Day. No. 282.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 21 April 1883
NPG D44117
Sir Edmund Lechmere, 3rd Bt ('Statesmen. No. 425.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 23 June 1883
NPG D44126
William George Middleton ('Men of the Day. No. 287.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 30 June 1883
NPG D44127
George Thomas Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle ('Statesmen. No. 426.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 14 July 1883
NPG D44129
Blanche, Marchioness of Waterford ('Ladies. No. 2. "The Marchioness of Waterford."')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 1 September 1883
NPG D44136
Gwladys Robinson, Marchioness of Ripon ('Ladies. No. 3.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 6 October 1883
NPG D44141
Angela Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts ('Ladies. No. 4.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 3 November 1883
NPG D44145
"The Cabinet Council, 1883" (Gladstone and 13 colleagues)
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 27 November 1883
NPG D44149
Lady Ida Louisa Ramsay (née Bennet), Countess of Dalhousie ('Ladies. No. 5.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 1 December 1883
NPG D44150
Blanche, Marchioness of Waterford
by Théobald Chartran ('T'), printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son
chromolithograph, published 1883
NPG D4643
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published 1883
NPG D6768
Lady Florence Caroline Dixie (née Douglas) ('Ladies. No. 6.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 5 January 1884
NPG D44155
Mary Augusta Fox (née Coventry), Lady Holland ('Ladies. No. 7.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 2 February 1884
NPG D44159
Candida Louise, Marchioness of Tweeddale ('Ladies. No. 8.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 1 March 1884
NPG D44163
Louis Pasteur ('Men of the Day. No. 372.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 8 January 1887
NPG D44314
Georges Ernest Jean Marie Boulanger ('Statesmen. No. 514.')
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 12 March 1887
NPG D44323
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