Ellen Terry
1 portrait
© reserved; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
Ellen Terry
by Lizzie Caswall Smith
platinotype cabinet card, 1900s
6 1/2 in. x 4 1/4 in. (165 mm x 109 mm) overall
Given by Terence Pepper, 2014
Photographs Collection
NPG x197414
Artistback to top
- Lizzie Caswall Smith (1870-1958), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 263 portraits.
This portraitback to top
With a career spanning sixty-nine years, Terry is regarded as the greatest English actress of the nineteenth-century and was one of the most photographed women of the period. These portraits derive from a sitting with society and celebrity photographer Caswall Smith. She ran her own studio at 390 Oxford Street from 1902-20 and then at 90 Great Russell Street (both in London) until 1930.
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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, 309 Oxford Street, London)
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Curators' Choice: Photographs from the Terence Pepper Gift (12 May 2015 - 24 January 2016)
Events of 1900back to top
Current affairs
The Conservatives return to power, after the Prime Minister Lord Salisbury calls a general election, known as the 'Khaki election', on the back of huge jingoistic support for the Boer War.The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) is founded from a coalition of socialist groups; they win two seats in the 1900 election and Ramsay Macdonald is appointed secretary. The Labour politician Keir Hardie is also returned to Parliament for Merthyr Tydfilin Wales.
Art and science
German physicist Max Planck proposes the concept of the quantum theory. Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams is published. In the text, Freud outlines his theory of dream analysis, crucial to the study of the unconscious, and introduces key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the Ego.The Paris International Exhibition, attended by more than 50 million people and including over 76,000 exhibitors, marks the heyday of Art Nouveau.
International
In China the Boxer rebellion takes place. The Boxers were anti-imperialist and against foreign influence in trade, religion, politics and technology in the final years of the Manchu rule. The Boxers invade Beijing, killing 230 foreigners and Chinese Christians. The rebellion is suppressed by a multinational coalition of 20,000 troops, with China being forced to pay large war reparations, contributing to growing nationalist resentment against the Qing dynasty.Comments back to top
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