'Luncheon Party at the House of Commons to the Delegates of the Imperial Ottoman Parliament by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (British Group)'
7 of 7 portraits of Mehmed Talat Pasha
'Luncheon Party at the House of Commons to the Delegates of the Imperial Ottoman Parliament by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (British Group)'
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 21 July 1909
6 1/8 in. x 8 in. (155 mm x 202 mm) image size
Given by House of Commons Library, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x135607
Artistback to top
- Sir (John) Benjamin Stone (1838-1914), Politician and photographer. Artist or producer associated with 1436 portraits, Sitter in 28 portraits.
Sittersback to top
- Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway (1850-1934), Barrister, industrialist and politician. Sitter in 10 portraits. Identify
- Neville Travers Borton (1870-1938), Civil servant in Egypt. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith (1832-1918), Politician, Chairman of Ways and Means, professor and man of letters. Sitter in 14 portraits. Identify
- Sir Sassoon Eskell (1860-1932), Politician and financier. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
- William Henry Holland, 1st Baron Rotherham (1849-1927), Textile manufacturer and politician. Sitter in 12 portraits. Identify
- Mehmed Talat Pasha (1874-1921), Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. Sitter in 7 portraits. Identify
- Eugene Wason (1846-1927), Politician and lawyer. Sitter in 8 portraits. Identify
- Philip James Stanhope, Baron Weardale (1847-1923), Politician; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter in 13 portraits. Identify
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (Terrace, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London)
Events of 1909back to top
Current affairs
The American retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge opens the first British custom-built department store on what was then the 'dead end' of Oxford Street. The revolutionary complex, considered the world's largest at the time, transforms shopping, offering diverse amenities including a post office and a library, and modernises the visual face of retailing through innovative window displays.Art and science
The Frenchman Louis Bleriot becomes the first person to cross the English channel by aeroplane, winning the £1,000 prize offered by the Daily Mail, and greeted by cheering crowds at Dover station. Bleriot's flight also showed that England was, as H.G. Wells put it, from a military point of view 'no longer an inaccessible island'.In dance, Alexandre Benois becomes the first artistic director of Sergey Diaghilev's innovative Ballets Russes.
International
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is founded in America to campaign for the rights of African Americans. One of the oldest and most influential civil rights movements, it was founded by a diverse group of individuals from mixed backgrounds, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Henry Moscowitz and William English Walling.The Selig Polyscope company sets up the first film studio in Los Angeles.
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