George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle
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George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle (London, 12 August 1843-Hindhead, Brackland 16 April 1911) was an English aristocrat, politician and painter.
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[edit] Life
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1], where he joined the Cambridge Apostles in 1864.[2] His art teachers were Alphonse Legros and Giovanni Costa, and he belonged to the 'Etruscan School'[3] of painters. He married Rosalind Frances Stanley in 1864, but did not share her campaigning interests, although he supported temperance. He was a friend of, and a patron to, a number of the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, being particularly close to Edward Burne-Jones.[4]
The Carlisles lived in Kensington, in a house at 1 Palace Green[5] designed for them by Philip Webb, and at Naworth Castle. Robert Browning stayed with them at Naworth in 1869.[6] William Morris was an intimate friend, and his wallpapers were used in Kensington, at Naworth and at Castle Howard when George inherited it.[7]
He was Liberal Party MP for East Cumberland, 1879-1880 and 1881-5. He succeeded to the title on the death in 1889 of his uncle William George Howard, 8th Earl of Carlisle. He was a trustee of the National Gallery.[8]
[edit] Family
His father was the MP Charles Wentworth Howard. His mother was Mary Parke, daughter of James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale.
He had 11 children with Rosalind.[9] Geoffrey William Algernon Howard was a Liberal MP. Lady Mary married Gilbert Murray, Lady Dorothy married Francis Robert Eden, 6th Baron Henley. Lady Cecilia married Charles Henry Roberts, an MP; the artist Winifred Nicholson, whom George had taught[10] and the MP Wilfrid Roberts were their children.
[edit] References
- Virginia Surtees (1988) The Artist and the Autocrat. George and Rosalind Howard, Earl and Countess of Carlisle
- Robin Gibson, George Howard and His Circle at Carlisle, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 110, No. 789, Special Issue Commemorating the Bicentenary of The Royal Academy (1768-1968) (Dec., 1968), p. 720
[edit] Notes
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ [3]; the name Etruscan School was applied only in the 1880s to the grouping around Costa, and George Howard has been credited with assembling them from 1882[4].
- ^ Judith Flanders, A Circle of Sisters (2001), p.111.
- ^ [5]; photos of decorations by Burne-Jones, William Morris, Walter Crane and Webb, From: 'Plate 109: No. 1 Palace Green, morning-room.', Survey of London: volume 37: Northern Kensington (1973), p. 109. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=49995. Date accessed: 06 March 2007. [6]
- ^ Iain Finlayson, Browning: A Private Life (2004) p.605.
- ^ [7]
- ^ [8]
- ^ [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14].
- ^ [15]
[edit] External links
- Victorian Web page
- ArtCyclopedia page
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- National Portrait Gallery; his portrait of his wife Rosalind
- National Portrait Gallery: his portrait of Edward Burne-Jones
- National Portrait Gallery: his portrait of James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale, maternal grandfather
- [17], [18], [19] , Balliol College portraits of Benjamin Jowett and Mazzini, online pictures.
