Vanity Fair Panel no. 5
7 of 7 portraits of Alan Frederick Cathcart, 3rd Earl Cathcart
Vanity Fair Panel no. 5
by Liborio Prosperi ('Lib'), and Carlo Pellegrini, and Sir Leslie Ward, and 'Hay', and Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1881-1889
13 1/8 in. x 55 in. (333 mm x 1397 mm) image size
Reference Collection
NPG D39295
Artistsback to top
- Théobald Chartran ('T') (1849-1907), Painter and caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 86 portraits.
- 'Hay' (active 1888-1893), Cartoonist. Artist or producer associated with 18 portraits.
- Carlo Pellegrini (1839-1889), 'Ape'; caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 490 portraits, Sitter in 5 portraits.
- Liborio Prosperi ('Lib') (1854-1928), Cartoonist in Vanity Fair. Artist or producer associated with 65 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
- Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864-1892), Eldest son of Edward VII. Sitter in 117 portraits.
- Frederick Archer (1857-1886), Jockey. Sitter in 13 portraits.
- George Alexander Baird (1861-1893), Amateur rider; landowner. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- (Colin) George Barrett (1863-1898), Jockey. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- Sir Edward Bates, 1st Bt (1816-1896), Shipowner and politician. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Frederick George Brabazon Ponsonby, 6th Earl of Bessborough (1815-1895), Politician and cricketer. Sitter associated with 3 portraits.
- Oscar Browning (1837-1923), Historian, teacher and linguist. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Alan Frederick Cathcart, 3rd Earl Cathcart (1828-1905), Soldier and agriculturalist. Sitter in 7 portraits.
- Wellington Henry Stapleton-Cotton, 2nd Viscount Combermere (1818-1891), Soldier and landowner. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Sir James Porter Corry, 1st Bt (1826-1891), Politician; MP for Belfast and Mid Armagh. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908), Politician and Captain; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter in 56 portraits.
- John Dillon (1851-1927), Nationalist and politician, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Sitter in 9 portraits.
- William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), Prime Minister and writer; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter associated with 324 portraits.
- Sir Charles Hall (1843-1900), Recorder of London. Sitter in 10 portraits.
- John Hargreaves (1839-1895), Master of the Cattiscott Hunt. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- James Leigh Joynes (1824-1908), Clergyman and schoolmaster. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Henry Matthews, Viscount Llandaff (1826-1913), Lawyer and politician. Sitter in 7 portraits.
- Sir Morell MacKenzie (1837-1892), Physician and laryngologist. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough (1844-1892), Writer. Sitter associated with 4 portraits.
- John Howe Osborne (1833-1922), Jockey and trainer. Sitter in 4 portraits.
- Lord Alexander Victor Paget (1839-1896), Naval officer and Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire; son of 2nd Marquess of Anglesey. Sitter in 4 portraits.
- Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel (1829-1912), Speaker of the House of Commons; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter in 24 portraits.
- Sir Pratap Singh (Sir Pratap Singhji), Maharaja of Idar and Regent of Jodhpur (1845-1922), Indian ruler and army officer. Sitter in 9 portraits.
- Sir William Cuthbert Quilter, 1st Bt (1841-1911), Art collector and politician. Sitter in 4 portraits.
- John Francis Holcombe Read, Stockbroker. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- Nathaniel Mayer ('Natty') de Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840-1915), Merchant banker. Sitter in 4 portraits.
- Henry John Brinsley Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland (1852-1925), Politician, army officer and landowner. Sitter in 8 portraits.
- Savile Brinton Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton (1857-1935), Politician and company chairman. Sitter in 10 portraits.
Events of 1881back to top
Current affairs
Benjamin Disraeli dies of bronchitis. He refuses a state funeral and is buried next to his wife, Mary Ann Viscountess Beaconsfield.Gladstone's Irish Land Act is passed in a bid to stop violence carried out by the republican Land League, conducted in protest at the 1870 Land Act.
Henry Mayers Hyndman forms the Marxist Democratic Federation.
Art and science
The Natural History Museum is opened on Exhibition Road, South Kensington. The museum, a landmark gothic design by the architect Alfred Waterhouse, was built to house specimens from the natural sciences, previously in the British Museum's collection. Today, the museum comprises of over 70 million items, and is a world-renowned research centre.International
Alexander II is assassinated in a bomb attack by members of a left-wing revolutionary movement. He was succeeded by his son, Tsar Alexander III.US President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau.
The first Anglo-Boer war ends. The war is started by a Boer uprising, as the British had annexed the Transvaal in 1877. Following Britain's defeat at the Battle of Majuba Hill, a truce is signed giving the Boers self-government and later independence.
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