Or rather, a public presentation of Horace Warner’s remarkable
photographs of children in Whitechapel in 1901 by the Gentle
Author at the National Portrait Gallery at 7.00 pm on Thursday 2 April. More info and booking here
and here one of the pictures – a Nipper in her best bib inspecting
a drawing by Edward Burne-Jones of Maria Zambaco (or her
lookalike – many of EBJ’s careful studies have Zambaco’s features):
The Whitechapel Art Gallery was originally a development from the fine art
exhibitions of works loaned by contemporary artists organised by Samuel and
Henrietta Barnett of Toynbee Hall. Rev
Samuel enjoyed discoursing to those visiting the exhibitions on the high
spiritual messages in pictures by G.F.Watts, Frederic Leighton, Burne-Jones
etc.
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