Social Victorians/People/Faustin Betbeder
Also Known As
[edit | edit source]- Family name: Faustin Betbeder
- VIAF ID: 91369041 (https://viaf.org/viaf/91369041/)
Demographics
[edit | edit source]- Nationality: French
Residences
[edit | edit source]Family
[edit | edit source]- Faustin Betbeder (1847–c. 1914)
Relations
[edit | edit source]Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies
[edit | edit source]- James Mortimer
- William Schwenk Gilbert
Organizations
[edit | edit source]- The London Figaro (ed., James Mortimer), 1873–1974
- Punch
- National Portrait Gallery
Timeline
[edit | edit source]1871, Faustin may still have been in France; two books on war in France in 1871 have examples of his work: John Milner, Art, War and Revolution in France 1870-1871: Myth, Reportage and Reality (Yale U P, 2000); Hollis Clayson, Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870–1871) (U of Chicago P, 2002). Faustin also made a lithograph called "Le Chevalier de la Mort," representing Kaiser Wilhelm as a skeleton.[1]
1874–1875, possibly from a collection called The London Sketchbook (unless they are miscatalogued, this collection includes a few, at least, later), held by the National Portrait Gallery:
- Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
- Queen Victoria
- Henry Hawkins, Baron Brampton; Arthur Orton; Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy
- Sir Robert Lush
- George Odger
- Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
- Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh
- Samuel Plimsoll
- John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
- King Edward VII [the NPG has miscatalogued this? This caricature is of Edward Albert, Prince of Wales?, with a quote from Hamlet.]
- Queen Alexandra [the NPG has miscatalogued this? This caricature is of Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales?, with a quote from Richard III.]
- Acton Smee Ayrton
- Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
- Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
- Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox and 1st Duke of Gordon
- George Ward Hunt
- Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon
- Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook
- John James Robert Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland
- Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
- James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury
- Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
- Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
- Queen Alexandra [duplicate?]
- John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
- Charles Darwin as a monkey, 1874–1875
- Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
- Queen Victoria [different image]
- Mr de Grey
1875, Faustin painted a "costume design" called "Les Heures," sold at auction in 2000 by Rosebery's. Also a costume design, "Gnome" is signed and dated the same year, 1875.[2]
1879, circa, Faustin painted a caricature of "HM the Empress Eugénie," with a quote from Two Gentlemen of Verona.
1885, Faustin painted "The Costume Worn in a London Play, c. 1885."[3]
1902, Faustin made a pencil and crayon drawing "Taking Guard," of an oddly hirsute and ragged cricket player.[4]
1908, Faustin designed costumes for a Savoy production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas has a "costumier's copy" design for Ruth, "after Faustin," the illustration says (The Pirates of Penzance).
Questions and Notes
[edit | edit source]Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- "3. Hugo et Napoleon le Nain." In "Des Pygmées antiques aux nains de jardin, sur les traces du nain dans la tradition satirique." CaricaturesetCaricature.com. http://www.caricaturesetcaricature.com/article-10523912.html. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- Daniels, Morna. "Caricatures from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Paris Commune." eBLJ 2005, Article 5. Online http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2005articles/pdf/article5.pdf. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- "Faustin Betbeder." National Portrait Gallery, Collections. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp18682/faustin-betbeder-faustin. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- "Faustin Betbeder." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustin_Betbeder (accessed 18 April 2013).
- "The Pirates of Penzance: Or, A Slave to Duty." "Musicals and Revues." A Tonic to the Imagination: Costume Designs for Stage and Screen by B. J. Simmons and Co., 1889–1959. Harry Ransom Center. Online. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/bjsimmons/musicals/606_1.html. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Deutsches Historisches Museum. http://www.dhm.de/ENGLISH/sammlungen/grafik/19891706.html. (As of 31 July 2024 this link returns a 404 because of "Datenbankproblems [database problems]," which they say are being fixed.)
- ↑ Invaluable.com has information about past auctions, although the image does not load sometimes. Search Faustin Betbeder and click the Past Items radio button.
- ↑ "The Costume Worn in a London Play, c.1885, by FAUSTIN (1847-c.1914)." Last viewed July 2024.http://web.artprice.com/artist/2464/faustin/lot/past/1851618/The+Costume+Worn+in+a+London+Play.
- ↑ Sold by Chris Beetles Gallery around 2013, but a search can as of July 2024 no longer find it on their website: https://www.chrisbeetles.com/.