Harold Giles Borrett; Marie Studholme
1 of 2 portraits of Harold Giles Borrett
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Harold Giles Borrett; Marie Studholme
by C. Corn, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, circa 1909
5 1/2 in. x 3 1/2 in. (139 mm x 90 mm) overall
Given by Norman McCann, 2011
Photographs Collection
NPG x160585
Sittersback to top
- Harold Giles Borrett (1881-1948), Son of Major-General Herbert Charles Borrett; second husband of Marie Studholme. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Marie Studholme (Marion Lupton) (1875-1930), Actress. Sitter in 43 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- C. Corn, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 3 portraits.
- Rotary Photographic Co Ltd (active 1897-1916), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 1423 portraits.
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1909back to top
Current affairs
The American retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge opens the first British custom-built department store on what was then the 'dead end' of Oxford Street. The revolutionary complex, considered the world's largest at the time, transforms shopping, offering diverse amenities including a post office and a library, and modernises the visual face of retailing through innovative window displays.Art and science
The Frenchman Louis Bleriot becomes the first person to cross the English channel by aeroplane, winning the £1,000 prize offered by the Daily Mail, and greeted by cheering crowds at Dover station. Bleriot's flight also showed that England was, as H.G. Wells put it, from a military point of view 'no longer an inaccessible island'.In dance, Alexandre Benois becomes the first artistic director of Sergey Diaghilev's innovative Ballets Russes.
International
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is founded in America to campaign for the rights of African Americans. One of the oldest and most influential civil rights movements, it was founded by a diverse group of individuals from mixed backgrounds, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Henry Moscowitz and William English Walling.The Selig Polyscope company sets up the first film studio in Los Angeles.
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dr marianne colloms
12 March 2017, 17:06
this is not gilbert porteous
it is Marie with her 2nd husband - as it says on the card - Harold Giles Borrett who she married in 1908.