Social Victorians/People/Faustin Betbeder

Also Known As

• Family name: Faustin Betbeder
• VIAF ID: 32267308 (http://viaf.org/viaf/32267308/) [Wikipedia has 107874991 for the VIAF, but that number links to 32267308.]

Demographics

• Nationality: French

Family

• Faustin Betbeder (1847–c. 1914)

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

• • James Mortimer
  • William Schwenk Gilbert

Organizations

• The London Figaro (ed., James Mortimer), 1873–1974
• Punch
• National Portrait Gallery

Timeline

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 (http://www.dhm.de/ENGLISH/sammlungen/grafik/19891706.html).

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 [actually, the NPG has miscatalogued this? This caricature is of Edward Albert, Prince of Wales?, with a quote from Hamlet.]
• Queen Alexandra [actually, 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 (http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/faustin-betheder-les-heures,-a-costume-design,-1-c-cba13d5950). Also a costume design, "Gnome" is signed and dated the same year, 1875 (http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/faustin-betbeder-gnome-and-les-heures-,-costu-1-c-c2ee520ed5).

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" (http://web.artprice.com/artist/2464/faustin/lot/past/1851618/The+Costume+Worn+in+a+London+Play)

1902, Faustin made a pencil and crayon drawing "Taking Guard," of an oddly hirsute and ragged cricket player (http://www.chrisbeetles.com/gallery/cartoon/taking-guard.html).

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).

Bibliography

1. "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.
2. 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.
3. "Faustin Betbeder." National Portrait Gallery, Collections. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp18682/faustin-betbeder-faustin. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
4. "Faustin Betbeder." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustin_Betbeder (accessed 18 April 2013).
5. "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.