Lady Acland (Arthur Henry Dyke Acland; Lydia Elizabeth (née Hoare), Lady Acland; Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Bt)
6 of 6 portraits of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Bt
Lady Acland (Arthur Henry Dyke Acland; Lydia Elizabeth (née Hoare), Lady Acland; Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Bt)
by (Richard) Wallace Hester ('W. Hester', 'Hester', 'WH' and 'WH-'), after Sir Thomas Lawrence
aquatint, Published 1903 (1818)
17 1/2 in. x 14 in. (443 mm x 355 mm) plate size; 22 1/2 in. x 17 5/8 in. (572 mm x 448 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D7159
Sittersback to top
- Arthur Henry Dyke Acland (1811-1857), Son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Bt. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
- Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Bt (1809-1898), Politician and educational reformer. Sitter in 6 portraits. Identify
- Lydia Elizabeth (née Hoare), Lady Acland (1786-1856), Wife of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Bt. Sitter in 6 portraits. Identify
Artistsback to top
- (Richard) Wallace Hester ('W. Hester', 'Hester', 'WH' and 'WH-') (circa 1867-1942), Artist and engraver; caricaturist in Vanity Fair. Artist or producer associated with 54 portraits.
- Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), Portrait painter, collector and President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 696 portraits, Sitter in 25 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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