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Archibald John Stuart-Wortley (27 May 1849 – 11 October 1905), was a British painter and illustrator.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Retrieved 31 January 2016 Primarily a portrait painter, in 1878 he commissioned the Arts and Crafts architect
Archibald Stuart-Wortley at the National Portrait Gallery
* 1849 births 1905 deaths 19th-century British painters British male painters
Archibald John Stuart-Wortley (27 May 1849 – 11 October 1905), was a British painter and illustrator.
Life
Stuart-Wortley was the eldest son of the Hon. James Stuart-Wortley, youngest son ofJames Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe
Colonel James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe, PC (6 October 1776 – 19 December 1845) was a British soldier and politician. A grandson of Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, he held office under Sir Rober ...
. His mother was the Hon. Jane Stuart-Wortley
Jane Stuart-Wortley or Jane Thompson; Jane Lawley (5 December 1820 – 4 February 1900) was an English philanthropist.
Life
Stuart-Wortley was born in York in 1820 when her surname was Thompson. Her family adopted the surname Lawley when her fat ...
, daughter of Paul Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock
Paul Beilby Lawley Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock (1 July 1784 – 9 May 1852), born Paul Beilby Lawley, was an English nobleman and Whig politician.
Life
Thompson was born Paul Beilby Lawley, the youngest son of Sir Robert Lawley, 5th Baron ...
, while Lord Stuart of Wortley was his brother.Jane Stuart WortleyOxford Dictionary of National Biography, Retrieved 31 January 2016 Primarily a portrait painter, in 1878 he commissioned the Arts and Crafts architect
Edward William Godwin
Edward William Godwin (26 May 1833, Bristol – 6 October 1886, London) was a progressive English architect-designer, who began his career working in the strongly polychromatic " Ruskinian Gothic" style of mid-Victorian Britain, inspired by ...
to design a house and studio for him in Tite Street
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, Chelsea
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, a fashionable area for artists at the time. Chelsea Lodge, as it was called, was located on Tite Street at the corner of Dilke Street and had two sets of principal rooms and studios enabling Stuart-Wortley to share it with Carlo Pellegrini, the well-known caricaturist. The arrangement does not seem to have worked out and he sold the house the following year. Stuart-Wortley then had another house built for him, Canwell House at no. 29 Tite Street, where he lived until 1885.
By 1881 the actress Nelly Bromley
Eleanor Elizabeth Emily (Nelly, sometimes Nellie) Bromley (30 September 1850 – 27 October 1939) was an English actor and singer who performed in operettas, musical burlesques and comic plays. She is best remembered today for having created the ...
had moved in with him and the couple married in 1884, with Stuart-Wortley acting as father to her four children.
He died 11 October 1905 in Uxbridge, Middlesex. His estate was worth £3622.
References
External links
Archibald Stuart-Wortley at the National Portrait Gallery
* 1849 births 1905 deaths 19th-century British painters British male painters
Archibald
Archibald is a masculine given name, composed of the Germanic elements '' erchan'' (with an original meaning of "genuine" or "precious") and ''bald'' meaning "bold".
Medieval forms include Old High German and Anglo-Saxon .
Erkanbald, bishop of ...
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