'The European Conference at Constantinople'
'The European Conference at Constantinople'
by George Percival Baker
albumen cabinet card, 1876
4 1/4 in. x 6 1/2 in. (109 mm x 165 mm) overall
Purchased, 2014
Photographs Collection
NPG x138237
Artistback to top
- George Percival Baker (active 1876-1877), Photographer. Artist or producer of 1 portrait.
Sittersback to top
- Count François de Bourgoing (active 1876), Diplomat. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Baron Heinrich von Calice (1831-1912), Diplomat. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Count Jean-Baptiste de Chaudordy (1826-1899), Diplomat and politician. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Luigi, Count Corti (1823-1888), Diplomat and politician. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Sir Henry George Elliot (1817-1907), Diplomat; son of 2nd Earl of Minto. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Nikolay Pavlovich, Count Ignatyev (1832-1908), Diplomat and politician. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903), Prime Minister; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter associated with 82 portraits. Identify
- Eugene Schuyler (1840-1890), Scholar, writer, explorer and diplomat. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Baron Karl von Werther (1809-1894), Diplomat. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Count Ferenc Zichy (1811-1900), Diplomat and politician. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
Events of 1876back to top
Current affairs
Following the introduction of the Royal Titles Act, Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India, with Disraeli deliberately flattering Victoria's imperialist ambitions. In turn, Victoria creates Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield; he continues to run government from the Lords.Art and science
The classical-subject painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema, famous for his elegant depictions of the Roman Empire, paints An Audience at Agrippa's.US inventor Alexander Graham Bell invents and patents the telephone following research into vocal physiology and speech instruction for the deaf, after discovering that sound could be transmitted and reconverted through an electric wire by using a continuous electric current.
International
15,000 Bulgarian Christians are slaughtered by Turkish troops in retaliation for the killing of 300 Turks in Batak at the start of the Bulgarian uprising. The Turkish government practices further repression by compulsorily transferring people of other ethnicities to Bulgaria to make the Bulgarians a minority. Gladstone published a pamphlet The Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East attacking Turkish actions, selling 200,000 copies in a month.Comments back to top
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