Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Dame Henrietta Octavia Weston Barnett (1851-1936), Social reformer

Paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints
Photographs

Paintings, drawings, sculptures and printsback to top


1908
Oil on canvas by Hubert von Herkomer, signed and dated top right, three-quarter-length to front, seated beside Samuel Barnett, right hand to cheek, left hand resting on unfolded map or plan; Toynbee Hall, London. Commissioned by the Barnetts’ admirers. ‘We are fresh from Herkomer, where we spent last night [in Bushey] … He is a wonderful creature, brimming with life. We talked hard while he studied us, and on 28th he begins the picture. He interests us, but will he last over six or eight sittings? His house cost £100,000.’ (Letter from Samuel Barnett to Frank Barnett, 24 Jan. 1908, Barnett Papers, LMA, F/BAR/400, quoted Barnett 1918, vol.2, p.346.) The portrait is visible in a photograph of prime minister Herbert Asquith standing in front of the canvas at its presentation to the Barnetts, 20 Nov. 1908; repr. Barnett 1918, vol.2, facing p.364 and in another shot, repr. Creedon 2006, p.142.
A second version or copy, 1200 x 1000m, by Herkomer; formerly Barnett House, Oxford, now (2012) Dept of Social Policy and Intervention, U. of Oxford.

1927
Painting, 711 x 914mm, by Maurice Codner, signed top right, half-length to left looking to viewer, seated, left hand to cheek, wearing gold rings, gold watch, grey and black dress and fur stole; coll. Henrietta Barnett School, London. Repr. The Times, 15 Jan. 1962, p.13; ref. The Times, 9 July 1927, p.12 (for date).
A copy by an unidentified artist; coll. Henrietta Barnett School, London.
A second copy; coll. Hampstead Garden Suburb Inst., London.

1933
Sanguine drawing by Ivan Opffer; see NPG 4537.


Photographsback to top


c.1866
Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length to right, looking to camera, standing, hair in ringlets, wearing crinoline dress; repr. Watkins 2005, p.15 (captioned ‘perhaps 15 years old’).

c.1869
Photograph by unidentified photographer, head-and-shoulders to front, head turned to right, hair in chignon at nape; repr. Watkins 2005, p.18.

1873
Photograph by unidentified photographer, head-and-shoulders vignette to front, hair braided on top of head, right hand to cheek; repr. Barnett 1918, vol.1, facing p.62; Watkins 2005, p.34; and Creedon 2006, p.41.

c.1880
Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length, standing, second from right in group with five other women outside Harrow Cottage, Whitestone Pond, Hampstead; repr. Barnett 1918, vol.1, facing p.124. A re-photographed print is in Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01/271.

1883
Photograph by unidentified photographer, bust-length vignette to front, wearing wide lace collar with floral corsage; repr. Barnett 1918, vol.1, facing p.304 (captioned ‘Taken at the time when Toynbee Hall was founded 1883’); Watkins 2005, p.83 (cropped); and Creedon 2006, p.91.

mid-to-late 1880s
Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length to front, seated in second row of group outside Toynbee Hall, with Samuel Barnett and 13 other men; repr. Watkins 2005, p.86 (captioned ‘Henrietta and Samuel with the young Oxbridge men who lived at Toynbee Hall’).

Photograph by unidentified photographer, bust-length vignette to left, wearing low lace collar with elaborate choker and hair ornament; repr. Watkins 2005, p.88 (captioned ‘Henrietta dressed for dinner’); and Creedon 2006, frontispiece (where dated ‘c.1885’).

c.1890
Photographs by unidentified photographer, long shots taken outside St Jude’s Cottage, Hampstead Heath, two known poses:
(a) half-length, standing behind fence, with Samuel Barnett and two women; large print Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01/259. Repr. Barnett 1918, vol.2, facing p.146.
(b) whole-length, standing, with Samuel Barnett and a girl; large print Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01/258 (where third sitter is named as Fanny Rowland but appears too small, and may be the Barnetts’ ward, Dorothy Woods).

1892
Photograph by unidentified photographer, hands clasped, seated next to Samuel Barnett in front row, third from left in group; repr. Barnett 1918, vol.1, facing p.160; and Watkins 2005, p.68 (captioned ‘Group of St Jude’s Parish Workers 1892’).

late 1890s
Photograph by unidentified photographer, half-length to front, seated beside table with books, her ward Dorothy Woods to right; repr. Barnett 1918, vol.2, facing p.142; Watkins 2005, p.127; and Creedon 2006, p.117. Dorothy Woods lived with the Barnetts 1891–1901.

?1890s
Photograph by unidentified photographer, three-quarter-length to front, hands clasped in lap, Samuel Barnett seated on arm of chair to right; repr. Watkins 2005, p.30; and Creedon 2006, p.98 (captioned ‘after ten years’ work in Whitechapel’).

Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length, seated on ground beside recumbent Samuel Barnett, in group of Toynbee Hall workers on walking holiday in Guernsey; print Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01/0222. Repr. Watkins 2005, p.120.

Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length to front, seated, Samuel Barnett standing to right, in drawing room; repr. Watkins 2005, p.132 (captioned ‘Henrietta and Samuel in the 1890s’).

1901
Photograph by unidentified photographer, three-quarter-length to right, looking to front, hands clasped to right, wearing dark dress, shelf of books to right; repr. Watkins 2005, frontispiece (captioned ‘Henrietta Barnett at 59’).

c.1904
Photograph by unidentified photographer, half-length to front, wearing large hat, with Samuel Barnett and chauffeur in vintage car, in Bristol or Bath; repr. Barnett 1918, vol.2, facing p.218; and Creedon 2006, p.166 (captioned ‘Canon and Mrs Barnett in Mr Henry Ward’s car’).

c.1905
Bromide print by Elliott & Fry, three-quarter-length to front, seated, Samuel Barnett standing to left; prints colls NPG x696; and Getty Images, #3395457, from Rischgitz Coll. Repr. The Year 1913 Illustrated(published by the Daily News), p.120, original artwork in NPG Library.

1907
Photographs by unidentified photographer, at inauguration of Hampstead Garden Suburb, 2 May 1907, two known poses:
(a) whole-length, standing with spade, between two girls amongst crowd in field (long shot); print Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/01/623.
(b) whole-length, standing, bending over spade, between two girls and in front of Alfred Lyttelton and three other men (mid-shot); cabinet card Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/01/624.

Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length to left, looking to camera, holding trowel in right hand to lay foundation stone for first Hampstead Garden Suburb building amidst crowd of boys and men; repr. Hampstead & Highgate Express, ‘Hampstead Garden Suburb Centenary Issue’, May 2007, p.iii (where dated 2 May 1907, date of first sod, see item above, but presumably taken some weeks later as foundation brickwork visible).

1908
Photograph by unidentified photographer, seated, looking to right, smiling broadly, with Samuel Barnett and Herbert Asquith on the occasion of the presentation of the double portrait by Herkomer (see above, ‘Paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints, 1908’); repr. Creedon 2006, p.142.

1909
Photographs by T.R. Rodger, at the opening of Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute, Mar., 1909, three known poses:
(a) half-length to front, wearing large dark hat and touching decorated floral basket, in outdoor group with Samuel Barnett, Edwin Lutyens and seven other people; print Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01/0636.
(b) head-and-shoulders to front, in outdoor group on steps in front of Institute doors, with Samuel Barnett amongst crowd; cabinet card Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01/0634.
(c) whole-length, standing beside decorated floral basket, in centre of crowd in indoor group at opening of the first room in HGS Institute; print Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01/0635.

Photograph by unidentified photographer, half-length to front, with Alfred Lyttelton at Town Planning Exhibition; repr. Daily Graphic, 15 July 1909 (clipping in Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/01/638).

Photographs by the Daily Mirror, at opening of The Orchard housing quadrangle in Hampstead Garden Suburb, 6 October 1909, two known poses:
(a) half-length, standing, with Samuel Barnett, Frederick Litchfield, Sybella Gurney and other VIPs on balcony, long shot showing crowd in foreground; print Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01/0640.
(b) half-length to front, standing, hands on parapet, mid-shot showing group on balcony; print Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01/0641.

Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length, with Samuel Barnett and Rev. Basil Bourchier, vicar of St Jude’s-on-the-Hill, at Heath End House, Hampstead; print Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01/0249 (where dated to 1909).

1912
Postcard by Barratt’s Photo Press Ltd photographer, whole-length to front, standing, looking down at long-handled spade, in group with Henry Vivian, J.H. Greenhalgh and others on the fifth anniversary of turning the first sod at Hampstead Garden Suburb; print Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01/0642.

1918
In Queen Mary at Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, newsreel film by unidentified camera operator, British Pathé, UK, 23 Oct. 1918, 55 secs, three-quarter-length to front, standing talking to Queen Mary in front of marquee at laying of foundation stone for Henrietta Barnett School; British Pathé, Film ID 1910.05. The date of newsreel screening is not known.

1924
Photographs by Topical Press at opening of new building at Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute, 31 May 1924, two known poses:
(a) whole-length, walking towards camera, head to right speaking to Queen Mary, Alfred Emmott far right, in outdoor group with building and line of Girl Guides in background; print Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01/03/022.
(b) whole-length, rear view, standing pointing eastwards, Lord Emmott to left, Queen Mary to right, exterior shot on flat roof; prints Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01//0827 and 3816/PH/03/014.
Other images from the same occasion; Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/01/0829 and 3816/01/0830.

1926
Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length to front, with Lord Emmott, the Katherine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl and another woman on the occasion of building extension to Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute; repr. Golders Green Gazette, 23 July 1926 (clipping from Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/ PH/03/046).

c.1930
Bromide print by Lafayette, three-quarter-length to left, standing, right hand holding folded paper, left hand on evening bag at hip; NPG x224. Repr. (cropped) in advertisement for re-issue of Barnett 1918 (captioned ‘taken when addressing a large audience recently’).

1931
Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length, seated, turning to right towards Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth) and unidentified man, in outdoor group, June 1931; repr. Hampstead & Highgate Express, ‘Hampstead Garden Suburb Centenary Issue’, May 2007, p.xiii; print Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01/08351931.

Photograph by unidentified photographer, half-length, profile to left, seated writing at desk at home; repr. Queen, 23 Dec. 1931 (clipping Hampstead Garden Suburb Archives, LMA, ACC/3816/PH/01//283).

c.1934–5
Photographs by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy), two known poses:
(a) inscr. by photographer on verso of mount with long biographical description listing sitter’s achievements, latest date given 1933, three-quarter-length to left, standing, looking into left distance, holding open notebook in left hand, plant-stand and fern to left; NPG x132814.
(b) half-length to front, seated at table, with open correspondence box, holding pen in right hand; ref. NPG SB (Henrietta Barnett).

Dr Jan Marsh