Sir Francis Seymour Haden
2 of 2 portraits by George Percy Jacomb-Hood
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Francis Seymour Haden
by George Percy Jacomb-Hood
oil on canvas, 1892
30 1/8 in. x 21 1/4 in. (765 mm x 540 mm) overall
Purchased, 1918
Primary Collection
NPG 1826
Sitterback to top
- Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), Surgeon and engraver. Sitter in 9 portraits, Artist or producer of 1 portrait.
Artistback to top
- George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857-1929), Painter, illustrator and etcher. Artist or producer of 2 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 269
- Simon, Jacob, The Art of the Picture Frame: Artists, Patrons and the Framing of Portraits in Britain, 1997 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 8 November 1996 - 9 February 1997), p. 178 Read entry
Pine base with an applied pine cushion ornamented with a frieze of overlapping oak leaves and acorns in compo, oil gilt except for water gilt inner flat, the base muted and pinned. 3 1⁄ 2 inches wide including 3⁄ 4 inch inner flat.
The last twenty years of the nineteenth century saw a fashion for these very deep rich cushion frames, often as here made up of oak leaves and acorns.1 The type is sometimes found on large-scale works by Academicians such as Luke Fildes's The Doctor of 1891 (Tate Gallery), but rarely in so dominant a form on a portrait of this scale. The cushion is not unlike the ‘2 1⁄ 2 Acorn Stick Top' which features in the frame catalogue in the National Monuments Record for Scotland of an unknown framemaker of the 1880s, unidentified but for the initials 'RS'.
The portrait is one of two painted in 1892 by Jacomb-Hood of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, a fellow member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, this one for Haden or his son, and the other for the Society.
1 A splendid laurel leaf example in the National Portrait Gallery can be found on Beatrice Bright's Sir Samuel Canning of 1897.
Events of 1892back to top
Current affairs
Gladstone's fourth and final term as Prime Minister begins, and is again dominated by the issue of Home Rule as he attempts to push through the third Home Rule Bill.The first Indian MP, Dadabhai Naoroji wins the seat for Finsbury Central, and Keir Hardie becomes the first MP for the Independent Labour Party, winning the seat for West Ham.
Art and science
William Butler Yeats forms the National Literary Society in Dublin, and also publishes The Countess Cathleen, a short play and his first contribution to Irish poetic drama.Rudolf Diesel is issued a patent for his internal combustion engine; Diesel's engine eventually replaces steam power.
The Nutcracker, based upon a story by E. T. A. Hoffman, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has its premier in St Petersburg.
International
Fifteen year old Annie Moore, from Ireland, is the first person to enter the United States through Ellis Island, newly opened as the point of reception for all new immigrants. Between 1892-1924, more than twenty million immigrants passed through Ellis Island.The Falkland Islands, east of the South American mainland, become a British colony.
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