National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | The Edwardians Podcast
1) Introduction
Introduction
2) James WHISTLER, Arrangement in black no. 5: Lady Meux 1881
Valerie Susan Langdon — the subject of this work — caused a scandal in 1878 when she married in secret Henry Meux, the heir to a brewery fortune. Valerie said she was an actress before her marriage, b...Show More
3) John Singer SARGENT, Lord Ribblesdale 1902
This portrait of Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale, came to epitomise the Edwardian aristocrat: a sportsman, soldier, courtier and landowner. Sargent portrayed him as being alert and upright, a man...Show More
4) George LAMBERT, Important people 1914, 1921
In Important people Lambert presented a group of ordinary people at a time when the subjects of group portraits were often people with wealth or status in society. He mocked the assumption that import...Show More
5) George LAMBERT, Lotty and a lady 1906
Lambert presented Lotty in command of the room, comfortably looking out at the viewer. The lady, dressed for outdoors in hat and gloves, is tenuously seated in this room; her body silhouetted against ...Show More
6) Rupert BUNNY, Madame Melba 1901-02
Nellie Melba was the professional name of Helen Porter Mitchell (1861–1931). The Australian soprano was born in Melbourne, the city from which she took her name. She sang at Covent Garden, London, fro...Show More
7) John Singer SARGENT, The fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy 1907
In The fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy Sargent portrayed the artist Jane de Glehn sketching the scene in front of her, watched by her artist husband Wilfrid. Jane described sitting for the p...Show More
8) C.R.W. NEVINSON, Returning to the trenches 1914
Nevinson witnessed the heavy casualties and widespread devastation of the first battles of the First World War. At the front, he made notes and sketches which he later worked up into drawings, paintin...Show More
9) William NICHOLSON, La Belle chauffeuse 1904
La Belle chauffeuse is a portrait of the playwright Sylvia Bristowe. Nicholson loved style and often included costume in his paintings. In depicting Sylivia Bristowe in a motoring outfit he made a sta...Show More
10) George FRAMPTON, Peter Pan 1912
Peter Pan is a small-scale version of George Frampton’s sculpture unveiled in Kensington Gardens in 1912. Edwardian society was enchanted by JM Barrie’s story of Peter Pan. The subject reflects a cont...Show More
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