Marie Effie (née Wilton), Lady Bancroft
1 of 260 portraits by Herbert Watkins
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Marie Effie (née Wilton), Lady Bancroft
by Herbert Watkins
albumen print, arched top, September 1856
7 5/8 in. x 6 in. (194 mm x 154 mm)
Purchased, 1985
Primary Collection
NPG P301(70)
Sitterback to top
- Marie Effie (née Wilton), Lady Bancroft (1839-1921), Actress and theatre manager; wife of Sir Squire Bancroft. Sitter in 31 portraits.
Artistback to top
- (George) Herbert Watkins (1828-1916), Photographer. Artist associated with 260 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
This portraitback to top
Bancroft is shown here in one of her earliest roles, as Perdita in William Brough's play of the same name, performed at the Lyceum Theatre in September 1856.
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Characters and Caricatures: Photographs by Herbert Watkins (3 June 2013 - 17 November 2013)
Events of 1856back to top
Current affairs
Queen Victoria introduces the Victoria cross, an award for British soldiers who displayed exceptional valour in battle. Each medal was produced from Russian guns captured in the British war. In 2006, Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry became the first living recipient of the Victoria Cross since 1965, for his actions in the Iraq war.Art and science
The National Portrait Gallery is founded by Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl of Stanhope, Thomas Babington Macaulay, and Thomas Carlyle, all biographers and historians. Historical rather than artistic in focus, the Gallery's aim was to collect original portraits of outstanding figures from British history, notably from politics, the arts, literature and science.Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes her epic and autobiographical poem Aurora Leigh.
International
The Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean war. Russia concedes to the Anglo-French-Austrian Four Points of August 1854 including the guarantee of Ottoman sovereignty and territorial integrity. Russia also agreed to a demilitarisation of the land islands in the Baltics, a term which lasted until the outbreak of the First World War.Britain launches the second Opium war against China.
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