Lady Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Pole-Carew (née Butler) as Portia in 'The Merchant of Venice'
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Lady Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Pole-Carew (née Butler) as Portia in 'The Merchant of Venice'
by Lallie Charles, published by Hudson & Kearns Ltd
photogravure, 20 June 1911, published 1912
10 3/4 in. x 6 1/2 in. (273 mm x 166 mm) image size
Purchased, 2010
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax135791
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- Lady Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Pole-Carew (née Butler) (1876-1952), Wife of Sir Reginald Pole-Carew; daughter of 3rd Marquess of Ormonde. Sitter in 10 portraits.
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- Lallie Charles (née Charlotte Elizabeth Martin) (1869-1919), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 104 portraits, Sitter in 10 portraits.
- Hudson & Kearns Ltd, Photographic printing company established in 1831 in London.. Artist or producer associated with 29 portraits.
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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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