Portraits Collection (#81)

Advert for Bairnsfather Fragments from France exhibition, 19
An advertisement in The Bystander, sister magazine of The Graphic, promoting an exhibition of the humorous wartime cartoons, Fragments from France, by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather

American First World War postcard. Kind thoughts from glorious France! 1917-1918

Portrait photograph of an American army officer with a bugle

Herbert and Cynthia Asquith during World War One
Herbert Asquith (1881 - 1947), poet, novelist and lawyer, second son of British Prime Minister, Henry Herbert Asquith. Pictured in 1915 during his service with the Royal Artillery

Gleams of sunshine for the trenches
In response to a request from one Officer fighting at the front who wrote to The Tatler syaing, wWe are fed up with war pictures, let us see some pretty faces

A. F. Wilding, the famous tennis player
Photograph of New Zealand tennis player, Anthony Frederick Wilding, Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913. His championship run came to an end in 1914 when he was beaten by Australian

Captain John Henry Stephen Dimmer V. C
Portrait of Captain John Henry Stephen Dimmer (1883-1918), of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 12 November 1914 at Klein Zillebeke

Kitchener, French, and King Albert of Belgium, WW1
Portraits of Earl Kitchener (Secretary for War), Field-Marshal Sir John French (Inspector-General of the Forces), and King Albert of Belgium (with his troops at Liege)

Lady Diana Manners in 1915
Photographic portrait of Lady Diana Manners (1890-1981), later Lady Diana Cooper, daughter of the Duke of Rutland and later Diana, Viscountess Norwich, the English actress

Mrs Raymond Asquith, formerly Katherine Mary Horner (1885 - 1976), wife of Raymond Asquith, the eldest of Prime Minister Herbert Asquiths four sons

A Star at the Front - Gladys Cooper on Tatler front cover, 1
Gladys Cooper (1888 - 1971), English stage and screen actress, pictured on the front cover of The Tatler in January 1915. The magazine reports on her taking part in a concert party

Col. Joe Shelley
Portrait photograph of Col. Joe Shelley (Mexican Joe). Veteran scout, big game hunter, explorer and missionary in Equatorial Africa. Date: 1889

King George V, inspecting a group of children

Portrait of King George V riding a horse in front of a crowd

Portrait of Buffalo Bill
Portrait photgraph of Buffalo Bill. Soldier, bison hunter and showman

Portrait photograph of Buck Taylor, king of the cowboys.Showman from Buffalo Bills Wild West Show

Portrait of a Red Indian on a horse

Portrait of Major Gordon W. Lillie, Pawnee Bill
Portrait of Major Gordon W. Lillie Pawnee Bill. Wild West showman and performer

A portrait of Thomas Jefferson. Fourth of July
A portrait of Thomas Jefferson on a Glorious Fourth of July Greetings card, with the declaration of independence

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and his residences
The White House and the log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born. Rock Spring Farm, Kentucky. February 12th 1809

Portrait photograph of three French chimney sweeps

Portrait photograph of Charles Dickens reading to his daughters. English writer and social critic

Portrait of Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, the first man in space. Citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Hero of the Soviet Union, Flyer-Spaceman of the USSR

Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Portrait
Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, K.C.B. K.C.V.O. In Supreme Command of the Home Fleets, 1914. Date: 1914

Ashley Havinden
Ashley Eldrid Havinden (1903 - 1973), advertising artist and poster designer, best known for his striking World War II posters for the Ministry of Information

Fay Compton
Lovely colour illustration of the actress Fay Compton, who at the time was leaving the UK to star in Olympia, the play by Franz Molnar in New York. Date: 1928

Joan Crawford as a Lady of Spain, 1928
Joan Crawford (1905 - 1977), born Lucille le Seuer, American film, theatre and television actress. Pictured appearing in the role of a girl in a Spanish circus in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film

Helen Wills and Eileen Bennett
Front cover of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News featuring a photograph of Helen Wills (Moody), the American player who won the Wimbledon Championship eight times, with Eileen Bennett

The Duke of Norfolk by Glan Williams
The Rt. Hon. Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Englands premier duke and Earl Marshal (responsible for ceremonial arrangements on behalf of the monarchy)

H. E. Bates
Herbert Ernest Bates (1905 74), British writer and author, best known for The Darling Buds of May, Love for Lydia and My Uncle Silas

Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort by Glan Williams
Henry Hugh Arthur Fitzroy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort (1900 - 1984), Preisdent of the Royal Windsor Horse Show and the Queens Master of the Horse

Mrs Gerald Legge by Glan Williams
The Honourable Mrs Gerald Legge, formerly Raine McCorquodale, the daughter of Barbara Cartland and stepmother to Diana, Princess of Wales

Andrew Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire by Glan Williams
Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire (1920-2004), landowner and responsible, together with his wife, Deborah Mitford for restoring Chatsworth House to its former glories. Date: 1955

Olympic Polo Team, 1924
Englands Olympic Polo team for the Paris Games of 1924. Top left is Major F. W. Barrett, top right is Lieut. Colonel the Hon. J. D. Y. Bingham, bottom right is Captain the Hon. F. E

The Sketch - America and the Peerage
Page from a supplement of The Sketch magazine featuring photographs of four wealthy American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy

Phil May by J. J. Shannon
Philip William May (1864-1903), celebrated British cartoonist. Date: 1902

Mrs Bryan Guinness with baby Jonathan
The Hon. Mrs Bryan Guiness (1910 - 2003), formerly Miss Diana Freeman Mitford, later Lady Mosley, pictured in 1930 with her eldest son, Jonathan Bryan Guinness. 1930

The Duchess of Roxburghe
The new Duchess of Roxburghe, wife of the 8th Duke and formerly Miss Mary (May) Goelet, daughter of Ogden Goelet, the famous American millionaire

Tatler front cover - Lord & Lady Curzon in India
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859 - 1925), British Conservative statesman, Viceroy and Governor General of India and Foreign Secretary, pictured with his first wife

Dr Marie Stopes presented at Court
Marie Stopes (1880-1958), Scottish author, palaeobotanist, campaigner for womens rights, and pioneer in the field of family planning pictured in court dress to be presented to King George V

Miss Whigham & Mr Sweeny announce engagement
Miss Margaret Whigham and Mr Charles Sweeny, American amateur golfer, pictured following the announcement of their engagement having been denying it up to the last moment

Mrs Wrenn Dupont & Mrs Charles Sweeny at Le Touquet
Mrs Wrenn Dupont and Mrs Charles Sweeny (formerly Miss Margaret Whigham and later the Duchess of Argyll) pictured looking very neat, the former in golf playing gear

Mrs Esmond Harmsworth & Mr & Mrs Sweeny at Ascot
The Hon. Mrs Esmond Harmsworth in the paddock at Ascot on Gold Cup Day, wearing black with two silver foxes (bit excessive in June)

Princess Sibylla of Sweden with her daughters
Princess Sibylla and her three eldest children.Sibylla, the daughter of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe Coburg, married Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden

Miss Olwen Lloyd George in her court presentation gown
Miss Olwen Lloyd George, twenty-one year old daughter of David Lloyd George, at that time, Chancellor of the Exchequer and later Prime Minister

The King and Queen in Scotland
King George V and Queen Mary seen here returning from Crathie, where they invariably go from Balmoral to church on Sunday. Date: 1930

Front-cover of The Sketch- The Duchess of York
Portrait for The Duchess of York on the occasion of the birth of her first child, Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II. Date: 1926

Madeleine Carroll by Olive Snell
Portrait of British film actress Madeleine Carroll (1906 - 1987), in private life Mrs Philip Astley. Star of The Thirty-Nine Steps. Date: 1934

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