Henry Edward Manning

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Henry Edward Manning

by George Frederic Watts
oil on canvas, 1882
35 1/2 in. x 27 1/2 in. (902 mm x 699 mm)
Given by George Frederic Watts, 1895
Primary Collection
NPG 1008

On display in Room 22 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery

Sitterback to top

  • Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892), Roman Catholic Cardinal-Archbishop of Westminster. Sitter in 56 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • George Frederic Watts (1817-1904), Painter and sculptor; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Artist or producer associated with 93 portraits, Sitter in 43 portraits.

This portraitback to top

For this portrait Watts expanded his usual format, posing the seated Manning in emulation of Renaissance papal portraits. As for Manning, he objected to the redness of his face: 'Tell Mr Watts that he has made me a tippler, and I am a teetotaller!'.

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Linked publicationsback to top

  • McConkey, Kenneth, Edwardian portraits : images of an age of opulence, 1987, p. 70 number 4
  • Piper, David, The English Face, 1992, p. 212
  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 408
  • Simon, Robin, The portrait in Britain and America : with a biographical dictionary of portrait painters, 1680-1914, 1987, p. 30 number 22

Events of 1882back to top

Current affairs

The Ashes Test cricket series is born. The series gets its name from a satirical obituary published in the English newspaper The Sporting Times, stating that English cricket had died and its cremated body was being taken back to Australia, after England, with batsmen W. G. Grace and Charles Studd, lost the first home match to Australia at the Oval.
The Married Women's Property Act is passed, securing equal property rights between married couples.

Art and science

Eadweard Muybridge, British photographer, exhibits his images of animal and human motion, captured with his 'zoopraxiscope', a motion-picture machine recreating movement by displaying individual photographs in rapid succession, at the Royal Academy and Royal Institution. His studies and inventions contributed to the development of motion pictures, with E.J. Marey and the Lumiere brothers acknowledging his impact.

International

The Zioinist movement begins, with the first wave of Jewish immigrants to Palestine, at this time part of the Ottoman empire. The Jewish people were in Diaspora, spread across the world, and Palestine, the place of Jewish origin but now also occupied by Muslims and Christians, seemed a logical place for a settlement.

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