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Kitchener (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 1 older comment, and then…
• bior said:

  This appears to be a photo of a painting

• Nathan Adams said:

  Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener. Commanded British troops at the beginning of World War I until his death in 1916 when the ship he was aboard struck a German mine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Kitchener,_1st_Earl_Kitchener

• swanq said:

  www.royalcollection.org.uk/egallery/object.asp?maker=1266.... May be the portrait although the reproduction on the Royal Collection website is very dark. If so, the painting is by Heinrich von Angeli and was painted by request of Queen Victoria around 1898-90. See books.google.com/books?id=Qi4OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA117&l... for circumstances of the sitting for Heinrich von Angeli and a photo that might well have been taken at the same time on page 116. That would date the sitting to July 1899 and locate it in Buckingham Palace. He was in the news in October 1914, because he was Secretary of State for War.

• swanq said:

  NYPL has a copy that looks to come from a book or newspaper
  
  
  and a search for the caption yields
  www.oldimprints.com/OldImprints/search.cfm?UR=47258&s...
  which indicates that the picture was in a supplement to the Illustrated London News. It mentions Angelo [sic] as the artist.

• swanq said:

  www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?obj=31594 shows another portrait in same uniform and at similar age, a photogravure published in 1900 from a painting by Arthur Cope.