Emilia Francis (née Strong), Lady Dilke
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Emilia Francis (née Strong), Lady Dilke
by Pauline, Lady Trevelyan (née Jermyn), and Laura Capel Lofft (later Lady Trevelyan)
oil on millboard, circa 1864
10 in. x 7 1/8 in. (254 mm x 181 mm)
Bequeathed by the sitter's husband, Mark Pattison, 1919
Primary Collection
NPG 1828a
Sitterback to top
- Emilia Francis (née Strong), Lady Dilke (1840-1904), Art historian and trade unionist; former wife of Mark Pattison and later second wife of Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Bt. Sitter in 6 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Laura Capel Lofft (later Lady Trevelyan) (1804-1879), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
- Pauline, Lady Trevelyan (née Jermyn) (1816-1866), Painter, wife of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Bt. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
This portraitback to top
The earlier of these two portraits shows Dilke as an artist, recorded by her friend Pauline, Lady Trevelyan, who had commissioned Dilke to provide decorative panels for her house at Wallington. Dilke's dress shows the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The later portrait by Camino shows Dilke as an established art historian, in a costume inspired by eighteenth-century French fashions.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ribeiro, Aileen, The Gallery of Fashion, 2000, p. 182
- Ribeiro, Aileen; Blackman, Cally, A Portrait of Fashion: Six Centuries of Dress at the National Portrait Gallery, 2015, p. 185
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 179
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Victorian Women Historians (13 March 2008 - 31 August 2008)
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1864back to top
Current affairs
First of the Contagious Diseases Act. These acts allowed for the arrest, medical inspection and confinement of any woman suspected of being a prostitute in the port towns. Following huge public outcry over their discrimination against women, notably led by Josephine Butler, leader of the Ladies' National Association, the acts were eventually repealed.Octavia Hill starts work on slums, and the International Working Men's Association is founded in London.
Art and science
The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell presents his discoveries in the field of electromagnetics to the Royal Society. His paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field expresses the basic laws of electricity and magnetism in unified fashion. Maxwell's equations, as his rules came to be known, helped create modern physics, laying the foundation for future work in special relativity and quantum mechanics.International
Austria and Prussia combine forces to seize Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.Britain cedes Corfu, acquired from France in the Second Treaty of Paris (1815) to Greece. Although Britain had vigorously suppressed an uprising in 1849 in Cephalonia aiming to restore Iolian islands, the government changed policy throughout the 1850s and 60s.
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