Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
8 of 191 portraits of Philip Edward Morrell
Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, August 1908
7/8 in. x 2 in. (23 mm x 50 mm) image size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Dame Helen Gardner Bequest, 2003
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax140046
Sittersback to top
- Baroness Olga de Meyer (née Maria Beatrice Olga Alberta Caracciolo) (1871-1930), Writer, artist's muse, patron of the arts and socialite; daughter of Duchess of Castelluccio; former wife of Marino Brancaccio, and later wife of Baron Adolf de Meyer. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862-1932), Philosopher. Sitter associated with 30 portraits. Identify
- Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), Patron of the arts; half-sister of 6th Duke of Portland; wife of Philip Edward Morrell. Sitter associated with 600 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 1716 portraits. Identify
- Philip Edward Morrell (1870-1943), Politician; husband of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Sitter associated with 191 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 339 portraits. Identify
- Edmondo Nicolis, Count of Robilant and Cereaglio (1871-1941), Husband of Valentina Mocenigo. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
Artistback to top
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6582 portraits.
Events of 1908back to top
Current affairs
Henry Asquith replaces Henry Campbell-Bannerman as Liberal leader and Prime Minister, with David Lloyd George taking control of the Exchequer. Asquith and Lloyd George embark on a bold programme of social reform, laying the foundations of the Welfare State, introducing government pensions this year and later a system of National Insurance.The first aeroplane for the British army is built by the American, Samuel Cody.
Art and science
E.M. Forster's novel A Room with a View is published, following the experiences of a young woman, Lucy Honeychurch, in the repressed culture of Edwardian England.The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles first uses the term 'cubism' to refer to a landscape painting by Georges Braque.
International
King Carlos of Portugal and his heir, Prince Luis Filipe, are killed by assassins from the Republican trying to provoke a revolution. Carlos I, unpopular because of his extravagant lifestyle and extramarital affairs, was succeeded by his younger son, Manuel, the last monarch of the Braganza dynasty.Following the death of the Guangxu Emperor in China, his two year old nephew replaces him, becoming the the last Manchu emperor of China.
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