Vanity Fair Panel no. 6
2 of 2 portraits of Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe
Vanity Fair Panel no. 6
by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, and Carlo Pellegrini, and Alfred Thompson (Atn), and Sir Leslie Ward, and Théobald Chartran ('T'), and Adriano Cecioni
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1869-1886
13 1/2 in. x 55 in. (343 mm x 1397 mm) image size
Reference Collection
NPG D39296
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.
- Carlo Pellegrini (1839-1889), 'Ape'; caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 490 portraits, Sitter in 5 portraits.
- Alfred Thompson (Atn) (active 1862-1876), Cartoonist. Artist or producer associated with 29 portraits.
- James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902), French painter and printmaker. Artist or producer associated with 70 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
- Baker Pasha (Valentine Baker) (1827-1887), Army officer. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- William Ballantine (1812-1887), Serjeant-at-law. Sitter in 12 portraits.
- Louis Jean Joseph Charles Blanc (1811-1882), French politician and historian. Sitter in 10 portraits.
- Henry Hawkins, Baron Brampton (1817-1907), Judge. Sitter in 37 portraits.
- John Bright (1811-1889), Statesman and orator. Sitter associated with 98 portraits.
- Baron Philipp von Brunnow (1797-1875), Ambassador. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham (1833-1916), Newspaper proprietor. Sitter in 5 portraits.
- Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), Explorer and writer. Sitter in 10 portraits.
- (William) Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), Novelist. Sitter in 25 portraits.
- Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe (1812-1894), Landowner and antiquarian. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- James Delahunty (1808-1885), Liberal politician; MP for Waterford. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Bt (1843-1911), Politician and writer; MP for Forest of Dean and Chelsea. Sitter in 32 portraits.
- Charles Old Goodford (1812-1884), Provost of Eton. Sitter in 5 portraits.
- Sir William Withey Gull, 1st Bt (1816-1890), Physician. Sitter in 8 portraits.
- James Manby Gully (1808-1883), Physician. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton and 9th Duke of Brandon (1845-1895), Son of 11th Duke of Hamilton and Princess Marie of Baden. Sitter in 6 portraits.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr (1809-1894), Essayist, poet and physician. Sitter in 4 portraits.
- Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893), Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Sitter in 13 portraits.
- Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy (1819-1880), Barrister and writer. Sitter in 7 portraits.
- Sir George Henry Lewis, 1st Bt (1833-1911), Solicitor. Sitter in 12 portraits.
- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838-1923), Politician, Secretary of State for India, newspaper editor and writer. Sitter associated with 33 portraits.
- Arthur Orton (1834-1898), The Tichborne Claimant. Sitter in 24 portraits.
- Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), Naturalist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Sitter in 35 portraits.
- Sir Harry Bodkin Poland (1829-1928), Lawyer. Sitter in 3 portraits.
- Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1882), Church of England clergyman and university professor; a leader of the Oxford Movement. Sitter in 14 portraits.
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878), Prime Minister and writer; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter associated with 249 portraits.
- Markham Spofforth (1825-1907), Lawyer and political agent. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892), Baptist preacher and religious writer. Sitter in 34 portraits.
- Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Bt (1818-1890), Art collector, connoisseur and philanthropist; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter in 10 portraits.
- Montagu Stephen Williams (1835-1892), Barrister. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- George Finch-Hatton, 11th Earl of Winchilsea (1815-1887). Sitter in 7 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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