This year’s theme was “Gilded Glamour and White Tie”. The theme honours a period of rapid prosperity, industrialization and growth in the US from 1870 to 1890. Due to the innovation of steam-power looms and electricity, fabric was produced quickly and inexpensively. This meant women’s dresses often featured a combination of many textiles, like satin, silk, velvet, and fringe, all adorned with over-the-top textures like lace, bows, frills, and ruffles.
Winter c.1876
Alfred Emile Léopold Joseph Victor Stevens (1823–1906)
Oil on canvas
H 76 x W 25 cm
City of London Corporation
Reverend John Shepherd Birley (1805–1883) c.1876–1877
Daniel Macnee (1806–1882)
Oil on canvas
H 240 x W 120 cm
Her Majesty's Court Service, Preston Crown Court
Autumn c.1876
Alfred Emile Léopold Joseph Victor Stevens (1823–1906)
Oil on canvas
H 76 x W 25 cm
City of London Corporation
Woman in White 1872
Alfred Joseph Woolmer (1805–1892)
Oil on canvas
H 53.3 x W 43.1 cm
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
The Artist's Wife, Ellen Moxon (c.1854–1917), Lady Orchardson 1872
William Quiller Orchardson (1832–1910)
Oil on canvas
H 191 x W 119.5 cm
National Galleries of Scotland
Frederick Sandys (1829–1904)
Oil on canvas
H 113 x W 89 cm
Norwich Civic Portrait Collection, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Portrait of a Woman 1872–1875
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895)
Oil on canvas
H 56 x W 46.1 cm
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
George Herbert and His Mother 1872
Charles West Cope (1811–1890)
Oil on canvas
H 74 x W 61 cm
Gallery Oldham
The 3rd Earl of Bradford (1819–1898) 1872
Frederick Sargent (1837–1899)
Oil on canvas
H 29 x W 23 cm
Weston Park
Judith 1872
Marcel Johann Zadorecki (active 1872–1939)
Oil on canvas
H 96.5 x W 71.1 cm
The Whitaker
Miss Helen Faucit (1814–1898), Actress 1873
Rudolf Lehmann (1819–1905)
Oil on canvas
H 134.6 x W 101 cm
Royal Shakespeare Company Collection
Ellen Dana Conway (1833–1897) 1873
Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)
Oil on panel
H 62 x W 43 cm
Conway Hall
Cache-cache 1873
Guglielmo Innocenti (active c.1872–1887)
Oil on wood
H 33.7 x W 26.7 cm
York Museums Trust
Charlotte Marion Baird (1851/1852–1937), Countess of Enniskillen 1873
Henry Richard Graves (1818–1882)
Oil on canvas
H 127.5 x W 101.5 cm
National Trust, Florence Court
Mrs Gilbert Farquhuar Davidson 1873
Jules Louis Machard (1839–1900)
Oil on canvas
H 136 x W 100.5 cm
Brighton & Hove Museums
Reading 1871
Alfred Joseph Woolmer (1805–1892)
Oil on canvas
H 38.5 x W 29 cm
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
Jean Milne Home 1870
Charles Augustus Henry Lutyens (1829–1915)
Oil on canvas
H 125.8 x W 100 cm
The Paxton Trust
Ideal Portrait of Lady Macbeth 1870
Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819–1895)
Oil on canvas
H 128.2 x W 102.5 cm
Walker Art Gallery
Mrs Spencelayh c.1875
Charles Spencelayh (1865–1958) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 39 x W 34 cm
Guildhall Museum, Rochester
Blonde and Brunette 1870s
Henry Guillaume Schlesinger (1814–1893)
Oil on canvas
H 64 x W 52 cm
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
Lady Ida (1848–1936), Viscountess Newport, afterwards Countess of Bradford 1870
unknown artist
Hand-tinted photograph
H 7 x W 5.7 cm
Weston Park
Dr J. C. Cookworthy 1870
Francis Lane (active 1864–1870)
Oil on canvas
H 90 x W 69 cm
The Box, Plymouth
The Right Honourable Jesse Collings (1831–1920) 1881
Jonathan Pratt (1835–1911)
Oil on canvas
H 127.5 x W 101.3 cm
Birmingham Museums Trust
The Honourable Anne Elizabeth Weld-Forester (1802–1885), Countess of Chesterfield 1874
Frederick Percy Graves (1837–1903)
Oil on panel
H 58.5 x W 47 cm
National Trust, Hughenden Manor
Alice Burford Rawlings, née Pardoe (1814–1885) c.1837
Henry Spurrier Parkman (1814–1864)
Oil on canvas
H 74.5 x W 62.3 cm
Nantgarw China Works Museum
Herman Herkomer (1863–1935)
Oil on canvas
H 75 x W 62 cm
Girton College, University of Cambridge
Juliana Pole-Carew (1812–1881), Lady Robartes 1839
Robert Thorburn (1818–1885)
Oil on canvas
H 71 x W 54.5 cm
National Trust, Lanhydrock
Lady Skating on Ice 1882
Ludovico Marchetti (1853–1909)
Oil on panel
H 25 x W 20 cm
Government Art Collection
Mrs Park Yates 1881
George Elgar Hicks (1824–1914)
Oil on card
H 21 x W 17.2 cm
Southampton City Art Gallery
Young Lady in a Feather Hat 1881
Jan van Beers (1852–1927)
Oil on mahogany panel
H 32 x W 22 cm
Kelmarsh Hall
After Marriage 1881
Arthur Howes Weigall (c.1836–1894)
Oil on canvas
H 89 x W 68.5 cm
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612–1642) 1881
Charles François Felu (1830–1900)
Oil on canvas
H 77 x W 61.5 cm
National Trust, Kingston Lacy
The First Born 1881
Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans (1811–1888)
Oil on panel
H 49.5 x W 38 cm
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
The Umbrellas about 1881-6
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
Oil on canvas
H 180.3 x W 114.9 cm
The National Gallery, London
Mrs William Lawrie 1881
William McTaggart (1835–1910)
Oil on canvas
H 90.8 x W 60.4 cm
National Galleries of Scotland
Flora St Clair Paint (d.1905), Mrs Samuel Theodore Mander 1881
George Frederick Chester (c.1840–1913)
Oil on canvas
H 75 x W 63 cm
National Trust, Wightwick Manor
Schoolgirls 1880
George Clausen (1852–1944)
Oil on canvas
H 52.1 x W 77.2 cm
Yale Center for British Art
Lady in White Dress Holding Flowers 1880
George Elgar Hicks (1824–1914)
Oil on card
H 36.8 x W 26 cm
Southampton City Art Gallery
Julia Neilson-Terry (1868–1957), FRAM, as Drusilla Ives in 'The Dancing Girl' 1891
John Collier (1850–1934)
Oil on canvas
H 233 x W 145 cm
Royal Academy of Music
Mary, 7th Countess of Sandwich
Henry Richard Graves (1818–1882)
Oil on canvas
H 79 x W 66 cm
Hinchingbrooke House
Florence Mary Ann Fane, Mrs Albert Bankes 1877
Henry Richard Graves (1818–1882)
Oil on canvas
H 90 x W 60 cm
National Trust, Kingston Lacy
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