Object Details
- Artist
- Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948
- Sitter
- Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett, 24 Nov 1849 - 29 Oct 1924
- Exhibition Label
- Born Manchester, England
- A prolific novelist and playwright, Frances Hodgson Burnett is best remembered for three children’s classics: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Born in Manchester, England, she and her widowed mother immigrated to the United States in 1865 in hopes of finding support from relatives. Yet it would be several years before Burnett would become financially independent by publishing fiction in popular magazines like Godey’s Lady’s Book, Scribner’s Monthly, and Harper’s. The success of Little Lord Fauntleroy all but secured her fame and fortune. The book sold more than half a million copies, and her dramatized version was popular as well.
- Samuel Johnson Woolf made this charcoal portrait of Burnett shortly before her death. It bears both of their signatures, as Woolf requested that his sitters sign their portraits as a mark of authenticity.
- Samuel Johnson Woolf (1880–1948) Charcoal and chalk on paper, 1924
- Gift of the artist’s daughters, Muriel Woolf Hobson and Dorothy Woolf Ahern NPG.87.169
- Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849–1924
- Nacida en Manchester, Inglaterra
- Novelista y dramaturga fecunda, Frances Hodgson Burnett es recordada por tres clásicos infantiles:
- El pequeño lord Fauntleroy (1886), La princesita (1905) y El jardín secreto (1911). En 1865, ella y su madre viuda emigraron de Inglaterra a Estados Unidos esperando encontrar apoyo en algunos familiares. Sin embargo, pasarían varios años antes de que Burnett lograra su independencia económica publicando ficción en revistas populares como Godey’s Lady’s Book, Scribner’s Monthly y Harper’s. El éxito de El pequeño lord Fauntleroy le aseguró fama y fortuna. Se vendieron más de medio millón de ejemplares y la versión dramatizada también fue popular.
- Samuel Johnson Woolf hizo este retrato a carboncillo poco antes de fallecer Burnett. Lleva las firmas de ambos, ya que Woolf pedía a sus modelos que firmaran los retratos como prueba de autenticidad.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist's daughters, Muriel Woolf Hobson and Dorothy Woolf Ahern
- 1924
- Object number
- NPG.87.169
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Charcoal and chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 63cm x 48.1cm (24 13/16" x 18 15/16")
- See more items in
- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett: Female
- Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Magazine article writer
- Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Novelist
- Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Playwright
- Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Essayist
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.87.169
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm41a5e1fec-ace7-4d07-b601-7f3a0bdd51e6
