Lady Alexina Coventry (née Duff); Agnes Cecil Emmeline (née Duff), Viscountess Dupplin (later Flower, later Cooper)
6 of 16 portraits by Andrew & George Taylor
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Lady Alexina Coventry (née Duff); Agnes Cecil Emmeline (née Duff), Viscountess Dupplin (later Flower, later Cooper)
by Andrew & George Taylor
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1870
3 7/8 in. x 2 1/2 in. (98 mm x 62 mm) overall
Given by Terence Pepper, 2014
Photographs Collection
NPG x197983
Sittersback to top
- Lady Alexina Coventry (née Duff) (1851-1882), Wife of Henry Aubrey Coventry; daughter of 5th Earl Fife. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Agnes Cecil Emmeline (née Duff), Viscountess Dupplin (later Flower, later Cooper) (1852-1925), Former wife of George Robert Hay-Drummond, Viscount Dupplin and of Herbert Flower, and later wife of Sir Alfred Cooper; daughter of 5th Earl Fife. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Artistback to top
- Andrew & George Taylor (active 1866-1900s), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 16 portraits.
Events of 1870back to top
Current affairs
William Edward Forster's Education Act is passed, making provisions for education for all under-13s. It demonstrated the balance in Gladstone's first ministry between progressive reform and conservativism by spreading literacy, whilst maintaining the status of Church schools.The Married Women's Property Act gives wives rights over their own earnings.
Art and science
The Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet, based on Shakespeare's play and written with the aid of composer Mily Balakirev, debuts in Moscow, conducted by Nikolai Rubenstein.W. G. Grace becomes cricket captain of Gloucestershire, marking the start of a successful decade for the club in which they won three 'Champion County' titles.
International
Isaac Butt, an Irish MP at Westminster, forms the Home Rule Association.The Franco-Prussian war breaks out between France and a coalition of German states led by Prussia. Provoked by the candidacy of German Prince Leopold Hohenzollen-Sigmaringen for the Spanish throne, France declared war in July after Bismark published the deliberately provocative Ems telegraph, in which the French were represented in an offensive light on the issue.
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