'Silver Wedding Presentation to the Speaker and Mrs Lowther'
19 of 20 portraits of John Edward Redmond
'Silver Wedding Presentation to the Speaker and Mrs Lowther'
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 3 May 1911
6 in. x 7 7/8 in. (152 mm x 201 mm) image size
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NPG x135697
Artistback to top
- Sir (John) Benjamin Stone (1838-1914), Politician and photographer. Artist associated with 1436 portraits, Sitter in 28 portraits.
Sittersback to top
- Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848-1930), Prime Minister and philosopher. Sitter in 138 portraits.
- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933), Foreign Secretary. Sitter in 41 portraits.
- (James) Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), Prime Minister. Sitter associated with 72 portraits.
- John Edward Redmond (1856-1918), Irish political leader. Sitter in 20 portraits.
- James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater (1855-1949), Speaker of the House of Commons. Sitter associated with 29 portraits.
- Mary Frances Lowther (née Beresford-Hope), Viscountess Ullswater (1854-1944), Wife of 1st Viscount Ullswater; daughter of Alexander James Beresford-Hope. Sitter in 3 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (Terrace, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London)
Events of 1911back to top
Current affairs
Asquith's Liberal government introduces the Parliament Act to curb the powers of the House of Lords following the clash between the Commons and Lords over the 1909 People's Budget. The Act removed the Lords' power to veto bills, reduced the length of Parliament from seven to five years, and provided for the payment of MPs.Art and science
Ernest Rutherford discovers the structure of the atom. The New Zealand born physicist working in Manchester showed with his Nuclear Model that electrons orbited a nucleus composed of protons and neutrons. The discovery paved the way for nuclear physics.International
The Polish Chemist, Marie Curie, becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for her discovery in 1898 of the radioactive element, Radon.The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre. The masterpiece was missing for two years, during which time suspicion fell on avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire and his friend Pablo Picasso, before Vincenzo Peruggia, an employee of the Louvre, was arrested in Florence.
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