Ernest Gustave Girardot (1840–1904) was born into a well-known artistic French family and worked as a genre and portrait painter throughout his life. His portraits of Tennyson and Lady Lytton are held in high regard. Girardot exhibited between 1880 and 1904 at the

Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...

in London, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Royal Hibernian Academy,

Royal Scottish Academy The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is the country’s national academy of art. It promotes contemporary Scottish art. The Academy was founded in 1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy, it became the ...

and Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. He became a member of the Society of British Artists in 1874. Girardot's home and workplace were at first in Notting Hill and later at 'The Studio', Upper Park Road,

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, London. He was a friend and correspondent of

James McNeill Whistler James Abbott McNeill Whistler (; July 10, 1834July 17, 1903) was an American painter active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading pr ...

- many of their letters have survived. Ernest Gustave Girardot had a son and daughter - the diminutive son, Etienne Girardot (1856–1939), who initially studied to become a painter, later became an acclaimed stage and screen actor.

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