Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson; Emily Sarah (née Sellwood), Lady Tennyson; Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1 portrait of Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson; Emily Sarah (née Sellwood), Lady Tennyson; Alfred, Lord Tennyson
by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio)
albumen print, 1890
8in. x 6 3/8in. (216 mm x 161 mm)
Photographs Collection
NPG x7955
Sittersback to top
- Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), Poet Laureate. Sitter in 97 portraits.
- Emily Sarah (née Sellwood), Lady Tennyson (1813-1896), Wife of 1st Baron Tennyson. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson (1852-1928), Governor General of Australia and biographer. Sitter in 12 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio) (founded 1886), Photographic Studio. Artist or producer associated with 35 portraits.
Events of 1890back to top
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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