George Denison Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham ('Men of the Day. No. 773.') Portrait Print

George Denison Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham ('Men of the Day. No. 773.') NPG D44999

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Harold Wright ('Stuff')

This caricature went to press as votes were being counted in the by-election in which Faber stood against Lord Charles Beresford; by publication day, he had already been appointed Member of Parliament for York.

The previous year, 1899, Faber had inherited the ground-lease of Covent Garden Opera House, and promptly sold it to 'The Grand Opera Syndicate Ltd.'. The text accompanying the caricature concludes with the cryptic sentence 'He thinks that he knows a picture when he sees it', which ties up with... more

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