'The Imperial War Conference'

1 portrait of Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner

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'The Imperial War Conference'

possibly by Lafayette, for Topical Press
vintage print, March-April 1917
7 1/2 in. x 9 1/2 in. (189 mm x 241 mm) image size
Given by Terence Pepper, 2011
Photographs Collection
NPG x137204

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  • Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd) (active 1880-1962), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 6908 portraits.
  • Topical Press (1903-1957), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 19 portraits.

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Events of 1917back to top

Current affairs

King George V changes his name from 'Saxe-Coburg' to 'Windsor.' Amid wartime anti-German public sentiment the British Royal Family decided to relinquish their German name and titles. The name 'Windsor' was chosen as variation on ''Wettin', the late Prince Albert's personal surname.

Art and science

The National Photographic Record is established at the instigation of the photographer Walter Stoneman to commission photographs of 'distinguished living contemporaries of British nationality.' This project allowed the National Portrait Gallery to circumvent its own rule that portraits could not enter the collection until the sitter had been dead ten years.

International

The Russian Revolution begins with the February Revolution and the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. Seven months later the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seize power in the October Revolution forming the Soviet Communist Government, which lasted until 1991. The USA abandons its neutrality and joins the war against Germany following a series of attacks on American passenger and merchant ships.

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great-british

28 April 2017, 12:19

The Lafayette Negative Archive states that this is definitely a Lafayette image, dates it to April 1917 and marks in a key the following sitters left out from the listing here: back row (2nd from left) Lieutenant Colonel D. Jones; (3rd from left) Hon Robert Rogers (1864-1936), Representative of Canada; (7th from left) Sir Edward John Harding (1880-1954); (8th from left) Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland (1876-1935), 1st Bt.; (9th from left) Sir Henry Charles Miller Lambert (1868-1935)