"Tattersall's, 1887" (King Edward VII; Edmund Tattersall; Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington; one unknown sitter and 14 others)
1 portrait of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster
"Tattersall's, 1887" (King Edward VII; Edmund Tattersall; Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington; one unknown sitter and 14 others)
by Liborio Prosperi ('Lib')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 6 December 1887
14 1/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. (359 mm x 242 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D44362
Artistback to top
- Liborio Prosperi ('Lib') (1854-1928), Cartoonist in Vanity Fair. Artist or producer associated with 65 portraits.
Sittersback to top
- Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (1824-1899), Politician, army officer and landowner. Sitter in 8 portraits. Identify
- Henry Ernest Schlesinger Benzon (1866-1911), Gambler. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- George Henry Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan (1840-1915), Politician; MP for Bath. Sitter in 17 portraits.
- Adeline Louisa Maria (née de Horsey), Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre (1824-1915), Former second wife of 7th Earl Cardigan, and later wife of Count de Lancaster. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Sir George Chetwynd, 4th Bt (1849-1917), Racehorse owner and gambler. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- King Edward VII (1841-1910), Reigned 1901-10. Sitter associated with 505 portraits. Identify
- Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth (1819-1889), Sportsman. Sitter in 5 portraits.
- Hon. Henry Townshend Forester (1821-1897), Lieutenant-Colonel of the Grenadier Guards. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton and 9th Duke of Brandon (1845-1895), Son of 11th Duke of Hamilton and Princess Marie of Baden. Sitter in 6 portraits.
- James Lowther (1840-1904), Sportsman and Conservative politician; MP for York, North Lincolnshire and Isle of Thanet. Sitter in 9 portraits.
- James Octavius Machell (1837-1902), Racehorse owner and manager. Sitter in 2 portraits.
- John Porter (1838-1922), Horseman and founder of Newbury Racecourse. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
- Sir Pratap Singh (Sir Pratap Singhji), Maharaja of Idar and Regent of Jodhpur (1845-1922), Indian ruler and army officer. Sitter in 9 portraits. Identify
- Edmund Tattersall (1816-1898), Director of Tattersall's horse auctioneers. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
- Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington (1846-1900), Soldier and politician. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
- Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster (1825-1899), Liberal politician, landowner and racehorse owner. Sitter in 16 portraits. Identify
- Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland (1844-1929), Politician and Viceroy of Ireland. Sitter in 9 portraits. Identify
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Events of 1887back to top
Current affairs
Queen Victoria celebrates her Golden Jubilee, marking 50 years of her reign.In what becomes known as 'Bloody Sunday', or the Trafalgar Square Riot, the police attack a meeting of the Social Democratic Federation, led by among others) Elizabeth Reynolds, John Burns, Annie Besant and Robert Cunninghame-Graham, killing three and injuring more than 200 crowd members.
Art and science
A Study in Scarlet, the first of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson, is published. One of only four novels (there were a further 56 short stories) featuring Holmes, the mystery turns around the discovery of a corpse in Brixton.The essayist and critic Walter Pater publishes Imaginary Portraits in which he consolidates his doctrine of Aestheticism, 'art for art's sake'.
International
Britain ratifies the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, thus accepting the terms of the International Copyright Act (1886), which abolishes the requirement to register foreign works and introduces an exclusive right to import or produce translations.The British annex Zululand; it becomes part of Natal in 1897.
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