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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
8 of 23 portraits of Sir Desmond MacCarthy
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by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1914
2 3/8 in. x 4 1/8 in. (61 mm x 104 mm) image size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Dame Helen Gardner Bequest, 2003
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax140483
Artistback to top
- Philip Edward Morrell (1870-1943), Politician; husband of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Artist associated with 340 portraits, Sitter associated with 191 portraits.
Sittersback to top
- Arthur Clutton-Brock (1868-1924), Essayist, critic and journalist. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Evelyn Alice Clutton-Brock (née Vernon-Harcourt) (1876-1964), Wife of Arthur Clutton-Brock; daughter of Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Dermod MacCarthy (1911-1986), Paediatrician; son of Desmond and Molly MacCarthy. Sitter in 7 portraits. Identify
- Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952), Writer and critic. Sitter in 23 portraits. Identify
- Mary ('Molly') MacCarthy (née Warre-Cornish), Lady MacCarthy (1882-1953), Writer; wife of Sir Desmond MacCarthy. Sitter in 11 portraits. Identify
- Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), Patron of the arts; half-sister of 6th Duke of Portland; wife of Philip Edward Morrell. Sitter associated with 596 portraits, Artist associated with 1715 portraits. Identify
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- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, Oxfordshire (Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire)
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Current affairs
Following Germany's declaration of war on France and invasion of Belgium, Herbert Henry Asquith, the British Prime Minister, declares war on the German Empire on August 4, 1914. The popular belief that the conflict would be 'over by Christmas' was soon found to be a bitter underestimate of the scale of the war.Art and science
The fist issue of the periodical Blast is published by Wyndham Lewis, announcing the advent of Vorticism. This movement, named by Ezra Pound and taking in art and poetry, combined the vitality and dynamism of Italian Futurism with the geometric structure of Cubism. Vorticism was a direct challenge to the perceived quaint and domestic style of the Bloomsbury group and Roger Fry's Omega Workshop.International
On June 28th 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated in Sarajevo leading to Austria's declaration of war against Serbia and triggering the First World War. Germany declared war on Serbia's ally, Russia, and then marched on France via Belgium. Soon all of Europe and most of the world was embroiled in total war.Tell us more back to top
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