Frances Gertrude James (née Bodenham)
3 of 3 portraits by Alessandro Ossani
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Frances Gertrude James (née Bodenham)
by Alessandro Ossani
pastel, 1890
25 1/2 in. x 19 in. (648 mm x 482 mm) uneven
Purchased, 1983
Primary Collection
NPG 5586a
Sitterback to top
- Frances Gertrude James (née Bodenham) (died 1894), Mother of 1st Baron James of Hereford. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 333
Events of 1890back to top
Current affairs
William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, publishes In Darkest England, in which he compares the supposedly 'civilised' England with 'Darkest Africa'. A critique of the degenerate state of society, Booth also proposed social welfare schemes to alleviate the sufferings of the urban poor.The world's first electric underground railway opens to the public in London, passing under the Thames and linking the City of London and Stockwell.
Art and science
William Morris founds the Kelmscott Press, a revival of art and craft techniques of book printing. Publications included The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896), with decorative designs and typeface by Morris and illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones.Vincent Van Gogh dies after shooting himself in the chest in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray first appears in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine .
International
Cecil Rhodes, organiser of the diamond-mining De Beers Consolidated Mines, becomes premier of Cape Colony as part of his expansionist aims in South Africa.In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Otto von Bismarck.
An international anti-slavery conference is held in Brussels, leading to the signing of a treaty by all the major maritime nations covering action to be taken against the trade in Africa and suppression of it by sea.
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Alex Kidson
17 November 2016, 15:22
Puzzled that your caption dates this 1894 when it appears to be clearly dated 1890. Also puzzled why you say Ossani was active till only 1888. Am I missing something?