European royalty and others
1 portrait of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
© National Portrait Gallery, London
European royalty and others
by and after Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1890s
7 1/2 in. x 5 1/4 in. (192 mm x 132 mm) image size
Purchased, 2014
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax139903
Artistback to top
- Elliott & Fry (active 1863-1962), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 10998 portraits.
Sittersback to top
- Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891), Philologist; grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Don Carlos (1848-1909), Pretender to the Spanish throne as Carlos VII. Sitter in 4 portraits.
- Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826-1893), Politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and diarist; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter in 57 portraits.
- Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy (1820-1878), Reigned 1849-78. Sitter in 7 portraits.
- Eugénie, Empress of France ('Eugénie de Montijo') (1826-1920), Consort of Napoléon III of France. Sitter in 28 portraits.
- Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-14. Sitter associated with 91 portraits.
- Napoléon III, Emperor of France (1808-1873), Reigned 1852-70. Sitter in 42 portraits.
- Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte, Prince Imperial (1856-1879), Lieutenant; son of Napoléon III. Sitter in 30 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG x32944: Napoléon, Prince Imperial (appears within the portrait)
- NPG x74318: Napoléon, Prince Imperial (appears within the portrait)
- NPG x74319: Napoléon, Prince Imperial (appears within the portrait)
- NPG Ax28580: Don Carlos (appears within the portrait)
Subjects & Themesback to top
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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