Sir Frank Cavendish Lascelles







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Sir Frank Cavendish Lascelles
by The Autotype Company, after Frank Dicksee
collotype, (1910)
12 in. x 8 7/8 in. (305 mm x 226 mm) plate size; 19 1/4 in. x 14 1/2 in. (489 mm x 367 mm) paper size
Given by Grillion's Club, 1915
Reference Collection
NPG D20803
Artistsback to top
- The Autotype Company (active 1868-), Reproductive engravers, printers and publishers. Artist associated with 46 portraits.
- Sir Francis Bernard ('Frank') Dicksee (1853-1928), Painter and President of the Royal Academy. Artist associated with 36 portraits, Sitter in 18 portraits.
Events of 1910back to top
Current affairs
George V succeeds Edward VII to the throne.The Liberals win narrow victories after calling two General Elections following escalating tension between the Liberal administration and the Lords reached crisis point with the Lords' unprecedented rejection of Lloyd George's 1909 budget. The budget included tax reform intended to fund social reform and a rearmament programme, but was seen by the Conservative Lords as an assault on property.
Art and science
The critic and Bloomsbury group member Roger Fry curates a ground-breaking and, at the time, shocking exhibition in London's Grafton Galleries, Manet and the Post-Impressionists. The exhibition introduces the work of contemporary European artists to the London art establishment, including Manet, Cezanne, Gaugin and Van Gogh, and Fry became a champion of modern art, coining the term 'Post-Impressionism'.International
Japan annexes Korea as a colony, an indication of Japan's ambitious imperialist aims and attempts to control trade and influence in East Asia. Japanese occupation of Korea lasted until 1945, after Japan surrendered to the Allied forces at the end of the Second World War and Korea was divided in two by the United States and the Soviet Union.Tell us more back to top
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