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  | Artist | Notes |
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 | William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, by John Singer Sargent 1916-1922 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | 
During WW1
he was a General Officer Commanding Australian and New Zealand Army Corps,
World War I 1914-1918; Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and
Commander, Dardanelles Army, Gallipoli 1915-1916; General Officer Commanding
Australian Imperial Force 1915-1918; France 1916-1918; Commander, 5 Army,
France 1918-1919
Service... |
 | William Cobbett by George Cooke circa 1831 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Cooke, George | This portrait is said to show Cobbett in the clothes he wore when tried for sedition in 1831. Considered a popular hero after his acquittal, Cobbett was elected to the reformed House of Commons, for the newly created borough of Oldham, in 1832. |
 | William Bulwer, Baron Dalling And Bulwer by Joseph Fagnani 1865 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Fagnani, Joseph | Bulwer joined the British Army in 1825 and entered the diplomatic service two years later. In 1838, he negotiated the Ponsonby Treaty with Turkey, which secured important advantages for British trade in the Ottoman Empire. He was appointed Ambassador to Spain in 1843 but his sympathies with the cause of Spanish constitutionalism led to his expulsion... |
 | Walter Savage Landor by William Mark Fisher 1839 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Fisher, William Mark | |
 | Viscountess Astor by John Singer Sargent 1923 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Stephen Olin by William Edward West oil on canvas on Masonite National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | West, William Edward | |
 | Sir John Everett Millais by Charles Robert Leslie 1852 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Leslie, Charles Robert | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy by John Singer Sargent 1905 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | |
 | Sir Francis Buller by Mather Brown 1792 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Brown, Mather | |
 | Sir Edmund Gosse by John Singer Sargent 1886 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
Sir Edmund Gosse, knighted much later in life (1849-1928), Poet and
writer; son of Philip Henry Gosse. He was born Sept. 21, 1849, London, Eng. and
died May 16, 1928, London.
He was an
English translator, literary historian, and critic who introduced the work of Henrik Ibsen and other continental European writers to
English readers.
Gosse... |
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