Cavendish Morton as Sir Thomas More

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Cavendish Morton as Sir Thomas More

by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1908
7 5/8 in. x 5 3/4 in. (195 mm x 145 mm)
Given by the photographer's son, Cavendish Morton, 1994
Photographs Collection
NPG x45647

Sitterback to top

  • Cavendish Morton (1874-1939), Photographer, actor and film director. Sitter associated with 15 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 115 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • Cavendish Morton (1874-1939), Photographer, actor and film director. Artist or producer associated with 115 portraits, Sitter associated with 15 portraits.

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  • Pepper, Terence, High Society: Photographs 1897-1914, 1998 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 30 January to 21 June 1998), p. 78 Read entry

    The photographer, actor and art director is portrayed as Sir Thomas More, in make-up and costume after Holbein’s portrait. Morton performed the role of More in the Chelsea Pageant of 1908. The picture is also one of more than 20 illustrating Morton’s roles in his book The Art of Technical Makeup (1909), including St Dunstan, King Lear, Don Quixote, Hamlet, Romeo and all three witches in Macbeth.

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Current affairs

Henry Asquith replaces Henry Campbell-Bannerman as Liberal leader and Prime Minister, with David Lloyd George taking control of the Exchequer. Asquith and Lloyd George embark on a bold programme of social reform, laying the foundations of the Welfare State, introducing government pensions this year and later a system of National Insurance.
The first aeroplane for the British army is built by the American, Samuel Cody.

Art and science

E.M. Forster's novel A Room with a View is published, following the experiences of a young woman, Lucy Honeychurch, in the repressed culture of Edwardian England.
The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles first uses the term 'cubism' to refer to a landscape painting by Georges Braque.

International

King Carlos of Portugal and his heir, Prince Luis Filipe, are killed by assassins from the Republican trying to provoke a revolution. Carlos I, unpopular because of his extravagant lifestyle and extramarital affairs, was succeeded by his younger son, Manuel, the last monarch of the Braganza dynasty.
Following the death of the Guangxu Emperor in China, his two year old nephew replaces him, becoming the the last Manchu emperor of China.

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