Social Victorians/People/Faustin Betbeder

Also Known As

 * Family name: Faustin Betbeder
 * VIAF ID: 32267308 (http://viaf.org/viaf/32267308/) [Wikipedia has 107874991 for the VIAF, but that number links to 32267308.]

Demographics

 * Nationality: French

Family

 * Faustin Betbeder (1847–c. 1914)

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

 * James Mortimer
 * William Schwenk Gilbert

Organizations

 * The London Figaro (ed., James Mortimer), 1873–1974
 * Punch
 * National Portrait Gallery

Timeline
1871, Faustin may still have been in France; two books on war in France in 1871 have examples of his work: John Milner, Art, War and Revolution in France 1870-1871: Myth, Reportage and Reality (Yale U P, 2000); Hollis Clayson, Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870–1871) (U of Chicago P, 2002). Faustin also made a lithograph called "Le Chevalier de la Mort," representing Kaiser Wilhelm as a skeleton ( http://www.dhm.de/ENGLISH/sammlungen/grafik/19891706.html ).

1874–1875, possibly from a collection called The London Sketchbook (unless they are miscatalogued, this collection includes a few, at least, later), held by the National Portrait Gallery:


 * Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
 * Queen Victoria
 * Henry Hawkins, Baron Brampton; Arthur Orton; Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy
 * Sir Robert Lush
 * George Odger
 * Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
 * Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh
 * Samuel Plimsoll
 * John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
 * King Edward VII [actually, the NPG has miscatalogued this? This caricature is of Edward Albert, Prince of Wales?, with a quote from Hamlet.]
 * Queen Alexandra [actually, the NPG has miscatalogued this? This caricature is of Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales?, with a quote from Richard III.]
 * Acton Smee Ayrton
 * Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
 * Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
 * Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox and 1st Duke of Gordon
 * George Ward Hunt
 * Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon
 * Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook
 * John James Robert Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland
 * Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
 * James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury
 * Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
 * Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
 * Queen Alexandra [duplicate?]
 * John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
 * Charles Darwin as a monkey, 1874–1875
 * Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
 * Queen Victoria [different image]
 * Mr de Grey

1875, Faustin painted a "costume design" called "Les Heures," sold at auction in 2000 by Rosebery's ( http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/faustin-betheder-les-heures,-a-costume-design,-1-c-cba13d5950 ). Also a costume design, "Gnome" is signed and dated the same year, 1875 ( http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/faustin-betbeder-gnome-and-les-heures-,-costu-1-c-c2ee520ed5 ).

1879, circa, Faustin painted a caricature of "HM the Empress Eugénie," with a quote from Two Gentlemen of Verona.

1885, Faustin painted "The Costume Worn in a London Play" ( http://web.artprice.com/artist/2464/faustin/lot/past/1851618/The+Costume+Worn+in+a+London+Play )

1902, Faustin made a pencil and crayon drawing "Taking Guard," of an oddly hirsute and ragged cricket player ( http://www.chrisbeetles.com/gallery/cartoon/taking-guard.html ).

1908, Faustin designed costumes for a Savoy production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas has a "costumier's copy" design for Ruth, "after Faustin," the illustration says (The Pirates of Penzance).