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Sir William Vernon Harcourt

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Sir William Vernon Harcourt

by The Autotype Company, after Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope
photogravure, before 1935 (1904)
24 1/8 in. x 18 5/8 in. (614 mm x 472 mm) plate size; 25 1/8 in. x 19 5/8 in. (639 mm x 499 mm) paper size
Given by Mrs Garreau, 1935
Reference Collection
NPG D35329

Sitterback to top

  • Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904), Lawyer, journalist and Liberal politician; MP for Oxford and Derby, Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the British Liberal Party. Sitter in 54 portraits.

Artistsback to top

  • The Autotype Company (active 1868-), Reproductive engravers, printers and publishers. Artist or producer associated with 46 portraits.
  • Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope (1857-1940), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 17 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG 6212: Sir William Vernon Harcourt (after)

Events of 1904back to top

Current affairs

Britain and France sign the Entente Cordiale, an agreement which resolves a number of longstanding colonial disputes (including a Declaration respecting Egypt and Morocco), signalling growing anxiety about the risk of future German aggression. Although not militarily binding, the agreement, negotiated between French foreign minister Théophile Delcassé, and Lord Lansdowne, the British Foreign Secretary, establishes a diplomatic understanding between the two countries.

Art and science

J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan is first performed at the Duke of York's Theatre in London. Charting the fantastical adventures of Peter, 'the boy who never grew up', the Darling children and the villainous Captain Hook in Neverland, many adaptations have been made of the story.
The painter Gwen John settles in Paris, where she becomes the lover and model of the sculptor Auguste Rodin, modelling for his sculpture Muse.

International

Japan attacks the Russian Navy at Port Arthur, sparking the Russo-Japanese war. Hostility was prompted by the rival imperialist ambitions of the Russian and Japanese empires in Manchuria, North East China, and Korea, considered by Japan to be an essential buffer against colonisation by Western Powers. Japan wins a series of victories against Russia which transforms the balance of power in East Asia, and undermines the Tsar's rule in Russia.

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