"In Vanity Fair" (King George V, Prince Arthur of Connaught and 20 others)
1 portrait of Philippe, 9th Duc d'Orleans
"In Vanity Fair" (King George V, Prince Arthur of Connaught and 20 others)
by Unknown artist
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 29 November 1890
14 1/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. (359 mm x 242 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D44518
Sittersback to top
- Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883-1938), Governor-General of South Africa; son of 1st Duke of Connaught and grandson of Queen Victoria. Sitter in 44 portraits. Identify
- Sir Robert William Buchanan Jardine, 2nd Bt (1868-1927). Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Arthur Cecil (Arthur Cecil Blunt) (1843-1896), Actor. Sitter in 11 portraits. Identify
- Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908), Politician and Captain; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter in 56 portraits. Identify
- Major George Mark Leycester Egerton (baptised 1837-1898), Official Handicapper for the Jockey Club. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- King George V (1865-1936), Reigned 1910-36. Sitter in 488 portraits. Identify
- George Grossmith (1847-1912), Entertainer and author. Sitter in 15 portraits. Identify
- Sir John Hare (1844-1921), Actor and theatre manager. Sitter in 23 portraits. Identify
- Sir Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-1896), Actor, impresario and dramatist. Sitter in 9 portraits. Identify
- Sir Henry Irving (John Henry Brodribb) (1838-1905), Actor-manager. Sitter in 122 portraits. Identify
- Thomas Power O'Connor (1848-1929), Journalist and politician; MP for Galway Borough and Liverpool. Sitter in 21 portraits. Identify
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist known as the 'father of modern bacteriology'. Sitter in 6 portraits. Identify
- Philippe, 9th Duc d'Orleans (1869-1926), Head of the Bourbon family. Sitter in 9 portraits. Identify
- (John) Sims Reeves (1818-1900), Singer. Sitter in 22 portraits. Identify
- Pablo Sarasate (1844-1908), Spanish violinist and composer. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Sir Archibald Levin Smith (1836-1901), Judge. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- William Henry Smith (1825-1891), Newsagent and politician, First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons. Sitter in 27 portraits. Identify
- Charles Kearns Deane Tanner (1849-1901), Surgeon and politician; MP for Mid Cork. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Edmund Tattersall (1816-1898), Director of Tattersall's horse auctioneers. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917), Actor and theatre manager. Sitter in 57 portraits. Identify
- Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), 'Spy'; caricaturist and portrait painter; son of Edward Matthew Ward. Sitter in 9 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 1617 portraits. Identify
- James Weatherby (1811-1894), Director of Weatherbys, horse racing administrators. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
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Events of 1890back to top
Current affairs
William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, publishes In Darkest England, in which he compares the supposedly 'civilised' England with 'Darkest Africa'. A critique of the degenerate state of society, Booth also proposed social welfare schemes to alleviate the sufferings of the urban poor.The world's first electric underground railway opens to the public in London, passing under the Thames and linking the City of London and Stockwell.
Art and science
William Morris founds the Kelmscott Press, a revival of art and craft techniques of book printing. Publications included The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896), with decorative designs and typeface by Morris and illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones.Vincent Van Gogh dies after shooting himself in the chest in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray first appears in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine .
International
Cecil Rhodes, organiser of the diamond-mining De Beers Consolidated Mines, becomes premier of Cape Colony as part of his expansionist aims in South Africa.In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Otto von Bismarck.
An international anti-slavery conference is held in Brussels, leading to the signing of a treaty by all the major maritime nations covering action to be taken against the trade in Africa and suppression of it by sea.
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