George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle
George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle (London, 12 August1843-Hindhead, Brackland 16 April1911) was an English aristocrat, politician and painter.
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]
Family
His father was the MP Charles Wentworth Howard. His mother was Mary Parke, daughter of James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale.
In 1864 he married Rosalind Frances Stanley with whom he had 11 children.[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.
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
Notes
- ^ Biography for: George James Howard
- ^ The Apostles
- ^ [1]; 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[2].
- ^ Judith Flanders, A Circle of Sisters (2001), p.111.
- ^ [3]; 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. [4]
- ^ Iain Finlayson, Browning: A Private Life (2004) p.605.
- ^ William Morris - Victoria and Albert Museum
- ^ Earls of Carlisle - LoveToKnow 1911
- ^ [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10].
- ^ ART / 4 / 2DAY
External links
- Victorian Web page
- ArtCyclopedia page
- [11]
- 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
- [12], [13], [14] , Balliol College portraits of Benjamin Jowett and Mazzini, online pictures.