Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
(1848-1930), Prime Minister and philosopher20th Century Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 140 portraits
Born at Whittingehame House, East Lothian and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge; Balfour first made his mark as a philosopher, publishing A Defence of Philosophic Doubt in 1879; he entered politics in 1874 through the patronage of his uncle, Lord Salisbury, as a Conservative member for Hertford; succeeded Salisbury as Prime Minister in 1902 but was unable to keep together a party divided by issues of Free Trade and Protectionism and resigned in 1905; during the First World War he worked as First Lord of the Admiralty and, from 1916 to 1919, as Foreign Secretary; Balfour continued in politics until the age of eighty, having served for twenty-seven years as a member of the cabinet.
by Vandyk
10 x 12 inch glass negative, 25 June 1918
NPG x130051
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by James Russell & Sons
bromide press print, 1920s
NPG x184176
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 1920s
NPG x196007
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1921
NPG x67281
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
NPG Ax142185
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
NPG Ax142186
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour; William Henry Grenfell, Baron Desborough
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
NPG Ax142189
'Lord Balfour playing tennis' (Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, Autumn 1925
NPG Ax142320
'Lord Balfour playing tennis' (Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, Autumn 1925
NPG Ax142321
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour and an unknown woman
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, Autumn 1925
NPG Ax142323
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, Autumn 1925
NPG Ax142324
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, Autumn 1925
NPG Ax142332
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, Autumn 1925
NPG Ax142333
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Vandyk
bromide press print, 1937 (1915)
NPG x184105
by Walter Stoneman
negative, July 1941
NPG x515
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
carbon print
NPG Ax15964
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Elliott & Fry
carbon print
NPG Ax16084
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
platinum print
NPG x180
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
vintage print
NPG x181
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 1 December 1880
NPG D43988
Related People
- Gerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour (brother)
- Eustace James Balfour (brother)
- Lady Evelyn ('Eve') Barbara Balfour (niece)
- Eleanor ('Nora') Mildred Sidgwick (née Balfour) (sister)
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