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Adelaide Augusta Floyd Passingham
1 of 2 portraits of Adelaide Augusta Floyd Passingham
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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Adelaide Augusta Floyd Passingham
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1889
11 1/2 in. x 8 3/4 in. (293 mm x 222 mm)
Purchased, 1991
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax36315
Sitterback to top
- Adelaide Augusta Floyd Passingham (1867-1954), Daughter of George Augustus Passingham. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) (1856-1937), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 203 portraits, Sitter associated with 30 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- 100 Photographs, 2018, p. 37 Read entry
As a child, Eveleen Myers (1856-1937) had posed for the celebrated photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Visits to Cameron’s studio may have inspired Myers to take up photography in 1888. This evocative portrait of Adelaide Passingham (1867-1954), simply posed with her hair loose, is one of Myers’s early successes, and appears to have been inspired by Cameron’s style. Myers used the medium primarily to record her children, but also set up a studio in the family home, Leckhampton House in Cambridge, where she made portraits of eminent contemporaries.
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Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- A Century of Photography, 1840-1940 (17 October 2016 - 29 October 2017)
Events of 1889back to top
Current affairs
The London Dock strike takes place resulting in a victory for the dock workers striking over pay and conditions.Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act, allowing legal intervention between children and parents for the first time.
Charles Booth, the English social scientist, publishes the first volume of Life and Labour of the People, an extensive survey into the living conditions of London's East End working class communities.
Art and science
George Gissing's The Nether World, a dark account of the lives of the urban poor in Clerkenwell, is published. Gissing absorbs the French naturalist style of writers such as Emile Zola to produce a harshly realistic observation of life in London at the end of the nineteenth century.International
The Eiffel Tower is erected, designed by the French engineer and bridge builder Alexandre Gustave Eiffel for the Paris Exposition. At 300m high, it was the tallest manmade structure in the world at the time.The Second International organisation is formed at a Congress in Paris by various socialist and labour parties, with the intention of working together for international socialism. It also declared 1 May International Labour Day.
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