Silhouettes display, 2004-05
Past display archive
11 September 2004 - 26 June 2005
Room 16
Free
This display celebrates the enduring art of the silhouette, from its eighteenth-century 'scientific ' beginnings to its explosion as an affordable form of popular portraiture. Silhouettes of Nelson and Wellington from life are displayed alongside work by the nineteenth- century master Augustin Edouart and the sitter books of the Brighton Pier silhouettist Hubert Leslie, who cut thousands of portraits for holidaymakers in the 1920s and 1930s.
The display is divided up into the following sections:
- Introduction
- The Corinthian Maid and the Swiss Pastor
- Royalty and Celebrity
- The Spread of the Silhouette
- Augustin Edouart's Revival
- The Decline of the Silhouette
- The Contemporary Silhouette
Top: Composite image, from left to right:
- John Henry Alexander; Mr Weekes; John Francis Theodon; John Lloyd , 1832
- Mrs Robert Beveridge; Anne Beveridge; Andrew Beveridge; Hugh Beveridge; Robert Beveridge, 1832
- Jane Anderson; Esther Ainslie; Helena Anderson; Mrs Arkley; Charles Atherton, circa 1830
- Sarah Siddons; Tyrone Power; Tyrone Power, 1832
4 silhouettes by Augustin Edouart (1789-1861)
Related portraits
- Possibly Jane Austen (NPG 3181)
- Lady (Charlotte) Eleanor Butler; Sarah Ponsonby (NPG 6243)
- Jeremy Bentham (NPG 3068)
- Hannah More (NPG 4501)
- Frederick, Duke of York and Albany; King George IV (NPG 1691a)
- Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt (NPG 1638)
- Edward Lear (NPG 1759)
- Catherine Lear (NPG 1759c)
- George Eliot (NPG 2645)
- Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Bt (NPG 3173a)
- Phil May (NPG 3941)
- Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII) (NPG 4534)
- Johann Caspar Lavater (NPG D16362)
- Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (NPG D16350)
- Six unknown sitters (NPG D16822)
- John Cocker (NPG D443)
- Horatio Nelson (NPG D534)
- King George III (NPG D542)
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (NPG D541)
- Charles Simeon (NPG D382)
- Charles Simeon (NPG D384)
- Charles Simeon (NPG D385)
- Charles Simeon (NPG D386)
- Charles Simeon (NPG D387)
- Charles Simeon (NPG D383)
- Charles Simeon (NPG D381)
- Charles Simeon (NPG D388)
- Henry Philip Hope (NPG D392)
- Alexander Hope (NPG D390)
- Jane Anderson; Esther Ainslie; Helena Anderson; Mrs Arkley; Charles Atherton (NPG D397)
- John Mackenzie; Sir George Mackenzie (NPG D451)
- John Henry Alexander; Mr Weekes; John Francis Theodon; John Lloyd (NPG D412)
- Sarah Siddons (née Kemble); (William Grattan) Tyrone Power as Dr O'Toole in 'The Irish Tutor'; (William Grattan) Tyrone Power (NPG D396)
- Mrs Robert Beveridge; Anne Beveridge; Andrew Beveridge; Hugh Beveridge; Robert Beveridge (NPG D413)
- Queen Victoria (NPG D18606)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (NPG D537)
- Charles Dickens (NPG D532)
- William Ewart Gladstone (NPG D535)
- Sir Francis Galton (NPG D425)
- Marion Terry (NPG D539)
- Clement Attlee (NPG D361)
- G.K. Chesterton (NPG D366)
- Renée Royale; H.O. Turguaud (NPG D16823)
- Frederick Drummond (NPG D16824)
- K. Tolkien; H. Cox (NPG D16825)
- Margaret Aileen Eaden; possibly Annie Elizabeth Eaden (née Hitchings) (NPG D16826)
- The London Sketch Club (NPG D3782)
- Jean Forbes-Robertson as Peter Pan in 'Peter Pan' (NPG D505)
Related sitters
- Esther Ainslie
- Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin
- John Henry Alexander
- Helena Anderson
- Jane Anderson
- Mrs Arkley
- Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Bt
- Charles Atherton
- Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee
- Jane Austen
- Sir James Barr
- Henry Mayo ('H.M.') Bateman
- Jeremy Bentham
- Andrew Beveridge
- Anne Beveridge
- Hugh Beveridge
- Robert Beveridge
- Mrs Robert Beveridge
- Lady (Charlotte) Eleanor Butler
- Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Gilbert Keith ('G.K.') Chesterton
- John Cocker
- H. Cox
- Stephen Baghot De La Bere
- Charles Dickens
- Thomas Downey
- Frederick Drummond
- Edmund Dulac
- Annie Elizabeth Eaden (née Hitchings)
- Margaret Aileen Eaden
- Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)
- George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
- Jean Forbes-Robertson
- Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
- Sir Francis Galton
- King George III
- King George IV
- William Ewart Gladstone
- John Hassall
- Alexander Hope
- Henry Philip Hope
- Reginald Jones
- Johann Caspar Lavater
- Catherine Lear
- Edward Lear
- Sir James Dromgole Linton
- John Lloyd
- Sir George Mackenzie
- John Mackenzie
- Philip William ('Phil') May
- Hannah More
- Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson
- George Parlby
- Sarah Ponsonby
- (William Grattan) Tyrone Power
- William Heath Robinson
- Renée Royale
- Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt
- Sarah Siddons (née Kemble)
- Charles Simeon
- Frederick Taylor
- Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
- Marion Bessie Terry
- John Francis Theodon
- K. Tolkien
- H.O. Turguaud
- Queen Victoria
- Mr Weekes
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Starr Wood