Noel Olivier; Maitland Radford; Virginia Woolf; Rupert Brooke
1 portrait of Virginia Woolf
Noel Olivier; Maitland Radford; Virginia Woolf; Rupert Brooke
by Unknown photographer
carbon print, 1911
8 1/2 in. x 6 1/2 in. (215 mm x 164 mm)
Purchased, 1979
Photographs Collection
NPG x13124
Sittersback to top
- Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), Poet. Sitter in 21 portraits. Identify
- Noel Olivier (1892-1969), Doctor. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Maitland Radford, Doctor. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (1882-1941), Novelist and critic; sister of Vanessa Bell. Sitter in 64 portraits. Identify
Artistback to top
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6582 portraits.
Events of 1911back to top
Current affairs
Asquith's Liberal government introduces the Parliament Act to curb the powers of the House of Lords following the clash between the Commons and Lords over the 1909 People's Budget. The Act removed the Lords' power to veto bills, reduced the length of Parliament from seven to five years, and provided for the payment of MPs.Art and science
Ernest Rutherford discovers the structure of the atom. The New Zealand born physicist working in Manchester showed with his Nuclear Model that electrons orbited a nucleus composed of protons and neutrons. The discovery paved the way for nuclear physics.International
The Polish Chemist, Marie Curie, becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for her discovery in 1898 of the radioactive element, Radon.The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre. The masterpiece was missing for two years, during which time suspicion fell on avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire and his friend Pablo Picasso, before Vincenzo Peruggia, an employee of the Louvre, was arrested in Florence.
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