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Vanity Fair Panel no. 4 (Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, Count von Moltke; Louis Jules Trochu; Frederick III, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia; Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck-Schonhausen; Victor Emmanuel Taparelli, Marchesi d'Azeglio...)

7 of 7 portraits of Pope Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti)

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by F. Goedecker, and James Jacques Tissot, and Carlo Pellegrini, and Adriano Cecioni, and Sir Leslie Ward, and Théobald Chartran ('T'), and Charles Auguste Loye ('M.D' or Montbard)
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1869-1884
13 1/2 in. x 53 1/2 in. (343 mm x 1359 mm) image size
Reference Collection
NPG D39294

Artistsback to top

Adriano Cecioni (1838-1886), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 34 portraits.
Théobald Chartran ('T') (1849-1907), Painter and caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 86 portraits.
F. Goedecker (active 1884-1885), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 7 portraits.
Charles Auguste Loye ('M.D' or Montbard) (1841-1905), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 10 portraits.
Carlo Pellegrini (1839-1889), 'Ape'; caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 490 portraits, Sitter in 5 portraits.
James Jacques Tissot (1836-1902), French painter and printmaker. Artist or producer associated with 68 portraits.
Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), 'Spy'; caricaturist and portrait painter; son of Edward Matthew Ward. Artist or producer associated with 1617 portraits, Sitter in 9 portraits.

Sittersback to top

Odo William Leopold Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill (1829-1884), Diplomat. Sitter in 6 portraits.
Victor Emmanuel Taparelli, Marchesi d'Azeglio (1816-1890), Piedmontese ambassador. Sitter in 6 portraits.
Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck-Schonhausen (1815-1898), Prussian statesman. Sitter in 16 portraits.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Historian and essayist; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter associated with 84 portraits.
Frederick III, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (1831-1888), Reigned 1888; husband of Princess Victoria (Princess Royal). Sitter associated with 49 portraits.
Léon Gambetta (1838-1882), Prime Minister of France. Sitter in 14 portraits.
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian soldier; played central role in unification of Italy. Sitter associated with 23 portraits.
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), Prime Minister and writer; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter associated with 321 portraits.
Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac (1843-1904), French duellist, soldier, journalist and politician. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815-1891), Politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and leader of the Liberal party; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter associated with 52 portraits.
Edmund Hammond, 1st Baron Hammond of Kirkella (1802-1890), Diplomat and civil servant. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Queen Isabella II of Spain (1830-1904), Reigned 1833-68; daughter of Ferdinand VII, King of Spain. Sitter in 8 portraits.
Leopold II, King of the Belgians (1835-1909), Reigned 1865-1909. Sitter in 13 portraits.
Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, Earl Lyons (1817-1887), Diplomat. Sitter in 4 portraits.
Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta (1808-1893), Marshal of France and second president of the Third French Republic. Sitter associated with 15 portraits.
Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, Count von Moltke (1800-1891), Field Marshal and military theorist. Sitter associated with 19 portraits.
Napoléon III, Emperor of France (1808-1873), Reigned 1852-70. Sitter in 42 portraits.
(Olivier) Émile Ollivier (1825-1913), Prime Minister of France. Sitter in 3 portraits.
Pope Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti) (1792-1878), Pope 1846-78. Sitter in 7 portraits.
Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (1830-1913), French journalist and politician. Sitter in 4 portraits.
Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877), Statesman and historian. Sitter in 23 portraits.
Louis Jules Trochu (1815-1896), Military leader and politician. Sitter in 5 portraits.
Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (1797-1888), Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, ruled 1861-88. Sitter associated with 16 portraits.

Events of 1869back to top

Current affairs

Gladstone introduces the Irish Church Disestablishment Act, which disestablishes the Church of Ireland, disassociating it from the state and repealing the paying of tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland.
Girton College is founded in Cambridge by Barbara Bodichon and Emily Davies, the first residential college for women in England; women were granted full membership to the University in 1948.

Art and science

Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev invents the periodic table of elements, which arranges elements within a group in order of their atomic mass.
The British scientist Mary Somerville publishes her last book On Molecular and Microscopic Science.
Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir paint together in the open air at La Grenouillère, developing the Impressionist style.

International

The Suez canal opens, linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez with the Mediterranean Sea, and transforming trade routes between Europe and Asia as merchants no longer had to circumvent Africa. The canal was largely in British and French control until Egyptian nationalisation in 1956, which sparked off the international Suez crisis.
Serialisation of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel of Russian society during the Napoleonic wars, War and Peace finishes.

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