Group photograph of the Hobhouse family with children and in-laws.

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by Unknown photographer
carbon print, 1910
7 3/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. (188 mm x 240 mm) image size
Given by Lady Clay, 1957
Photographs Collection
NPG x32107

Artistback to top

Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist associated with 6566 portraits.

Sittersback to top

Sir George Felix Neville Clay, 5th Bt (1871-1941), Architect. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
Sir Henry Felix Clay, 6th Bt (1909-1985), Engineer; son of Sir George Felix Clay. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
Rachel (née Hobhouse), Lady Clay (1883-1981), Wife of Sir George Felix Clay, 5th Bt; eldest daughter of Henry Hobhouse. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
Eleanor Hobhouse (1884-1960), Second daughter of Henry Hobhouse and Red Cross nurse. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
Henry Hobhouse (1854-1937), Politician; MP for East Somerset. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
Sir John Richard Hobhouse (1893-1961), Shipowner. Sitter in 7 portraits.
Margaret Heyworth Hobhouse (née Potter) (1854-1921), Wife of Henry Hobhouse. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
Paul Edward Hobhouse (1894-1918), Fourth son of Henry Hobhouse. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Stephen Henry Hobhouse (1881-1961), Writer on Prisons; eldest son of Henry Hobhouse; husband of Rosa Waugh. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Margaret Imogen Lister (née Clay) (1904-1984), Wife of Joseph Cleverly Lister; eldest daughter of Sir George Felix Clay. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
Janet Wood (née Clay) (1907-1997), Wife of Humphrey Seymour Outterson Wood; daughter of Sir George Felix Neville Clay, 5th Bt. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify

Linked publicationsback to top

Rolley, Katrina; Aish, Caroline, Fashion in Photographs 1900-1920, 1992, p. 93

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Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, Somerset (sitters' home, Hadspen House, Pitcombe, Somerset)

Subjects & Themesback to top

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.

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