'Cinderella' (Beatrice Sothern Fanny Buckstone (Mrs Walter Warren))
© National Portrait Gallery, London
'Cinderella' (Beatrice Sothern Fanny Buckstone (Mrs Walter Warren))
by Rupert Potter
printing-out paper print, 1881
8 1/2 in. x 6 1/2 in. (217 mm x 164 mm) overall
Given by Jack Edward Ladeveze, 1993
Photographs Collection
NPG x131242
Sitterback to top
- Beatrice Sothern Fanny Buckstone (Mrs Walter Warren) (1869-1956), Actress; artist's model; daughter of John Baldwin Buckstone. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Artistback to top
- Rupert Potter (1832-1914), Barrister and photographer; father of Beatrix Potter. Artist or producer associated with 29 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
Events of 1881back to top
Current affairs
Benjamin Disraeli dies of bronchitis. He refuses a state funeral and is buried next to his wife, Mary Ann Viscountess Beaconsfield.Gladstone's Irish Land Act is passed in a bid to stop violence carried out by the republican Land League, conducted in protest at the 1870 Land Act.
Henry Mayers Hyndman forms the Marxist Democratic Federation.
Art and science
The Natural History Museum is opened on Exhibition Road, South Kensington. The museum, a landmark gothic design by the architect Alfred Waterhouse, was built to house specimens from the natural sciences, previously in the British Museum's collection. Today, the museum comprises of over 70 million items, and is a world-renowned research centre.International
Alexander II is assassinated in a bomb attack by members of a left-wing revolutionary movement. He was succeeded by his son, Tsar Alexander III.US President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau.
The first Anglo-Boer war ends. The war is started by a Boer uprising, as the British had annexed the Transvaal in 1877. Following Britain's defeat at the Battle of Majuba Hill, a truce is signed giving the Boers self-government and later independence.
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R Yeates
05 March 2017, 16:42
Sothern Beatrice Fanny Buckstone was the daughter (not granddaughter) of John Baldwin Buckstone and Isabella, baptised 4 Jul 1869 at St Bartholomew's Church, Sydenham. She was born 24 Mar 1869 according to the baptism record.