Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.')
5 of 8 portraits of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.')
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.')
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographer's card mount, circa 1903
5 7/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (149 mm x 100 mm) image size
Given by Olive Edis, 1948
Photographs Collection
NPG x13812
Sitterback to top
- Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.') (1844-1925), Cartoonist and journalist. Sitter in 8 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 137 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy) (1876-1955), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 425 portraits, Sitter in 17 portraits.
- Katharine Legat (née Edis) (1880-1963), Photographer; sister of Olive Edis. Artist or producer associated with 21 portraits, Sitter in 12 portraits.
Events of 1903back to top
Current affairs
Emmeline Pankhurst forms the militant organisation, the Women's Social and Political Union, campaigning for greater rights for women and to secure them the vote. Its members were known as 'suffragettes', and adopted the slogan of 'Deeds, not words'.Joseph Chamberlain resigns as Colonial Secretary to campaign for tariff reform and an end to free trade, a key economic issue which splits the Conservative party.
Art and science
Henry James publishes The Ambassadors. Autobiographical in tone, it movingly and humorously traces the conversion of the American Lewis Lambert Strether, sent to Paris to find his widowed fiancee Mrs Newsome's wayward son Chad, to European culture.Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the leading Scottish arts and crafts designer and architect, designs the Willow tea rooms in Glasgow for his patron, Miss Catherine Cranston.
International
The Bolsheviks (meaning 'the majority'), a faction of the exiled Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, are formed after splitting from the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in London.After gaining independence following the end of the Spanish-American war, Cuba is forced to accept a permanent US military presence at Guantánamo Bay.
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