The Faded Orchids
116 of 140 portraits of Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
The Faded Orchids
after Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.')
line block postcard, circa 1903
3 5/8 in. x 5 1/2 in. (91 mm x 139 mm) overall
Given by Terence Pepper, 2011
Reference Collection
NPG D42281
Sittersback to top
- Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848-1930), Prime Minister and philosopher. Sitter in 140 portraits. Identify
- Joseph ('Joe') Chamberlain (1836-1914), Industrialist and politician; MP for Birmingham. Sitter in 106 portraits. Identify
- Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908), Politician and Captain; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter in 56 portraits. Identify
- Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury (1823-1921), Judge. Sitter associated with 32 portraits. Identify
Artistback to top
- Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.') (1844-1925), Cartoonist and journalist. Artist or producer associated with 137 portraits, Sitter in 8 portraits.
Events of 1903back to top
Current affairs
Emmeline Pankhurst forms the militant organisation, the Women's Social and Political Union, campaigning for greater rights for women and to secure them the vote. Its members were known as 'suffragettes', and adopted the slogan of 'Deeds, not words'.Joseph Chamberlain resigns as Colonial Secretary to campaign for tariff reform and an end to free trade, a key economic issue which splits the Conservative party.
Art and science
Henry James publishes The Ambassadors. Autobiographical in tone, it movingly and humorously traces the conversion of the American Lewis Lambert Strether, sent to Paris to find his widowed fiancee Mrs Newsome's wayward son Chad, to European culture.Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the leading Scottish arts and crafts designer and architect, designs the Willow tea rooms in Glasgow for his patron, Miss Catherine Cranston.
International
The Bolsheviks (meaning 'the majority'), a faction of the exiled Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, are formed after splitting from the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in London.After gaining independence following the end of the Spanish-American war, Cuba is forced to accept a permanent US military presence at Guantánamo Bay.
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