Marie Lloyd

1 portrait by Schloss

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Marie Lloyd

by Schloss
albumen panel card, 1890
7 1/8 in. x 11 5/8 in. (181 mm x 295 mm)
Purchased, 1980
Photographs Collection
NPG x12456

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  • Schloss (active 1890-1900), Photographer. Artist or producer of 1 portrait.

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  • Rogers, Malcolm, Camera Portraits, 1989 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 20 October 1989 - 21 January 1990), p. 119 Read entry

    The eldest of the eleven children of an artificial-flower maker, Marie Lloyd formed the Fairy Bell Minstrels as a child, and performed in schoolrooms and mission halls. She first appeared on stage aged fourteen, and was in the West End of London before she was sixteen. Though she worked in pantomimes, her name will always be associated with the music hall, and with songs like 'The Boy I love sits up in the Gallery' and 'Oh, Mr Porter'. To much of her material, by look, gesture, or tone of voice, she brought a cheery vulgarity, and both Ellen Terry and Sarah Bernhardt praised her powers of 'significant expression'.

    This photograph dates from Marie Lloyd's first visit to America in 1890, and was taken at the Schloss studio at 54 West 23rd Street, New York. The Cockney girl is portrayed as an oriental houri, among all the exotic trappings of a fashionable theatrical photographer, and with a whiff of sexual provocation which anticipates no. 136. It is curiously at odds with the singer of 'I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked abaht a bit'.

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  • Place made: United States (photographer's studio, 54 West 23rd Street, New York)

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Current affairs

William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, publishes In Darkest England, in which he compares the supposedly 'civilised' England with 'Darkest Africa'. A critique of the degenerate state of society, Booth also proposed social welfare schemes to alleviate the sufferings of the urban poor.
The world's first electric underground railway opens to the public in London, passing under the Thames and linking the City of London and Stockwell.

Art and science

William Morris founds the Kelmscott Press, a revival of art and craft techniques of book printing. Publications included The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896), with decorative designs and typeface by Morris and illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones.
Vincent Van Gogh dies after shooting himself in the chest in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray first appears in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine .

International

Cecil Rhodes, organiser of the diamond-mining De Beers Consolidated Mines, becomes premier of Cape Colony as part of his expansionist aims in South Africa.
In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Otto von Bismarck.
An international anti-slavery conference is held in Brussels, leading to the signing of a treaty by all the major maritime nations covering action to be taken against the trade in Africa and suppression of it by sea.

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