Marie Effie (née Wilton), Lady Bancroft as Lady Teazle and an unknown boy nicknamed 'Biafra' in 'The School for Scandal'
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Marie Effie (née Wilton), Lady Bancroft as Lady Teazle and an unknown boy nicknamed 'Biafra' in 'The School for Scandal'
by Window & Grove
albumen carte-de-visite, 1874
3 1/2 in. x 2 3/8 in. (89 mm x 60 mm) image size
Purchased, 2007
Photographs Collection
NPG x131009
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- Marie Effie (née Wilton), Lady Bancroft (1839-1921), Actress and theatre manager; wife of Sir Squire Bancroft. Sitter in 31 portraits.
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- Window & Grove (active 1872-1933), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 168 portraits.
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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographers' studio, 63a Baker Street, Portman Square, London)
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Disraeli becomes Prime Minister for the second time, winning the general election and giving the Conservative party its first absolute majority since the 1840s.Professional opportunities for women develop, with the opening of the London School of Economics to women, the foundation of the London School of Medicine for Women and the Women's Protective and Provident League.
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The Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc., including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Camille Pissarro organise an exhibition in Paris. Art critic Louis Leroy gives the group its name, criticising Monet's Impression, Sunrise for being merely an unfinished 'impression'. Impressionism becomes recognisable for techniques such as short, broken brushstrokes barely conveying forms, pure unblended colours, and an emphasis on the effects of light.International
Britain annexes the Gold Coast, the region on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, now the independent nation of Ghana, following the second Ashanti war. The Treaty of Fomena secured massive financial reparations for the British, and strengthened their hold on the prosperous resources and trade routes in the regions. However, weakening the Ashanti tribe greatly destabilised the area.Comments back to top
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John Culme
29 November 2019, 10:55
The School for Scandal, revived at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, London, 4 April 1874, with Mrs. Bancroft as Lady Teazle.
'. . . When Miss Wilton [Mrs. Bancroft] is on the stage she commands attention. Though she is not speaking, we notice everything – the way she indicates to her black boy that he may drop her train; the manner in which she glances round at the servant when she wishes him to take her empty cup; and trivial details of similar description. . . .'
(The Standard, London, Monday, 6 April 1874, p. 2e)
'. . . And the second act – what a picture it is, with its antique spinette [sic] and quartet band and gossiping company, regardless of music, and Lady Teazle in white satin, with a real black boy behind her, and a minuet in which Mr. Lin Rayne [as Sir Benjamin Backbite] distinguishes himself especially! . . .'
(The Globe, London, Tuesday, 7 April 1874, p. 6b)
'The Prince of Wales's company are still playing ''The School for Scandal.'' The scenery is gorgeous and the furniture is apparently the result of a raid on Wardour-street [a centre of the antique furniture trade]. The black page is universally admired, and [Fanny Josephs's] Lady Sneerwell's lace insured, we are told for 800£., is causing every lady occupant of the half-guinea stalls to commit a breach of the tenth commandment.'
(The Western Mail, Cardiff, Friday, 24 April 1874, p. 6b)
'. . . We do not object to well-painted scenery or gorgeous dresses, or to the hundred and one attractive appliances of modern stage-management. On the contrary, we are by no means disinclined to join in the general murmur of admiration when Mrs. Bancroft dresses one of the scenes in The School for Scandal with, on dit, £2000 work of bric-a-brac, and ransacks every likely place in England to find a real black boy to act as page, in lieu of having recourse to the equally effective and far less expensive plan adopted by the Christy Minstrels. . . .'
(The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, London, Saturday, 25 April 1874, p. 3b)