Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts

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Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts

by The Autotype Company, after Frank Dicksee
collotype, (1914)
11 5/8 in. x 8 3/4 in. (296 mm x 223 mm) plate size; 19 3/4 in. x 14 1/2 in. (503 mm x 368 mm) paper size
Given by Grillion's Club, 1915
Reference Collection
NPG D20797

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Artistsback to top

  • The Autotype Company (active 1868-), Reproductive engravers, printers and publishers. Artist or producer associated with 46 portraits.
  • Sir Francis Bernard ('Frank') Dicksee (1853-1928), Painter and President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 36 portraits, Sitter in 18 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG D9924: Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (from same plate)

Events of 1914back to top

Current affairs

Following Germany's declaration of war on France and invasion of Belgium, Herbert Henry Asquith, the British Prime Minister, declares war on the German Empire on August 4, 1914. The popular belief that the conflict would be 'over by Christmas' was soon found to be a bitter underestimate of the scale of the war.

Art and science

The fist issue of the periodical Blast is published by Wyndham Lewis, announcing the advent of Vorticism. This movement, named by Ezra Pound and taking in art and poetry, combined the vitality and dynamism of Italian Futurism with the geometric structure of Cubism. Vorticism was a direct challenge to the perceived quaint and domestic style of the Bloomsbury group and Roger Fry's Omega Workshop.

International

On June 28th 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated in Sarajevo leading to Austria's declaration of war against Serbia and triggering the First World War. Germany declared war on Serbia's ally, Russia, and then marched on France via Belgium. Soon all of Europe and most of the world was embroiled in total war.

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