Adelaide Ida Fane (née Curzon), Countess Westmorland and baby, probably Anthony Mildmay Julian Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland
2 of 3 portraits of Adelaide Ida Fane (née Curzon), Countess Westmorland
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Adelaide Ida Fane (née Curzon), Countess Westmorland and baby, probably Anthony Mildmay Julian Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
3 3/8 in. x 2 1/8 in. (85 mm x 55 mm) image size
Purchased, 1904
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax50302
Sittersback to top
- Adelaide Ida Fane (née Curzon), Countess Westmorland (1835-1903), Wife of 12th Earl of Westmorland; daughter of 1st Earl Howe. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- Anthony Mildmay Julian Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland (1859-1922), Army officer. Sitter associated with 1 portrait.
Artistback to top
- Camille Silvy (1834-1910), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 14313 portraits, Sitter in 24 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, 38 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London)
Events of 1860back to top
Current affairs
An early feminist movement, The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women is founded by Adelaide Anne Proctor, Emily Faithfull, Helen Blackburn, Bessie Parks, Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon, and Jessie Boucherett.The Florence Nightingale Training School for Nurses opens at St Thomas's Hospital, in London, funded from the testimonial fund collected for Nightingale following her war services, and helping to establish nursing as a profession.
Art and science
William Morris and new wife Jane Burden move into the Red House, near Bexleyheath, Kent. The house, designed by Philip Webb, represents Morris's principle in interior design, that no object should be in a house that is not beautiful.Ford Madox Brown paints The Last of England, showing a boat of emigrants leaving England under desperate circumstances, inspired by the emigration of the Pre-Raphaelite Thomas Woolner to Australia in 1852.
International
Italian unification continues as the Treaty of Turin brings much of Northern Italy under nationalist leader Cavour's control, who cedes Savoy and Nice to France. Garibaldi siezes the opportunity to invade Marsala in Sicily with his army of 1,000 redshirts, proclaiming himself dictator in the name of Victor Emmanuel II.Republican Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the US, with only 39% of the popular vote.
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Great-british
27 August 2015, 00:18
Given the date of the portrait the baby here is probably (without seeing the portrait it is harder to say conclusively) Anthony Mildmay Julian Fane, 13th Earl of Westmoreland (1859-1922). Her other young infant at this time was George Nevile John Fane, Lord Burghersh, born in 1858, but who died at the end of July 1860.