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Sitter: King George V (1865-1936), when Duke of York. Biog: Reigned 1910-1936. Date: August/September 1897. Occasion: Royal visit to Ireland 18 August-8 September 1897; Investiture of King George V as a Knight of St. Patrick, 20 August 1897. Location: Viceregal Lodge, Dublin. Descr: FL standing. Costume: Robes of a Knight of St. Patrick; uniform of a British naval captain. Orders: Collar, Badge and Star of a Knight of St. Patrick; Star of a Knight of the Order of the Garter; Star of a Knight of the Order of the Thistle; Badge of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; Badge of The Royal Victorian Order; Queen Victoria Jubilee Medal 1887 with 1897 bar; [others obscured]. Furniture and Props: Painted backdrop.
Registered Photographer: James Stack Lauder (1853-1923), trading as 'J. Lafayette', 179 New Bond Street, London. (Published with credit to Lafayette, Dublin). Evidence of photographer at work: - No of poses: 1 [but see also (D)(00410)] Copyright: V&A All
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References: Biog: Dictionary of National Biography; Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd ed., Burke's Royal Families of the World, Vol 1, London, 1977, p 309. Occasion: The Irish Times, 20 August 1897, p 5j & 21 August 1897, p 8d. Costume: Peter Galloway, The Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, Chichester, 1983. Orders, Decorations and Medals: (Orders) Burke's Peerage; (Jubilee Medal) Howard N. Cole, Coronation and Royal Commemorative Medals 1887-1977, London, 1977. Photog. and Location: The Irish Times, 24 August 1897, p 11f; Copyright Records, Public Record Office, Kew, COPY 1/432, 6 October 1897, (1 pose registered). Reproduced: The Queen, 4 September 1897, frontispiece; The Gentlewoman, 4 September 1897, supplement: The Second Dublin Horse Show Number, frontispiece; Peter Galloway, The Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, Chichester, 1983, plate 35.
Additional Information: At least four Dublin photographers (Lafayette of Westmoreland St, Chancellor and Sons of Lower Sackville St., J. Robinson of Grafton St., and Messrs Werner & Son of Grafton St.) were invited to photograph the Duke and Duchess of York at Viceregal Lodge during the Royal visit of 1897. Refs: The Irish Times, 24 August 1897 p 5f or 11f [ck], 25 August 1897, p 9g; 27 August 1897; p 6 h [ck]; 28 August 1897, p 9a; 30 August 1897, p 5e; 2 September 1897, p 6a & 8 September 1897, p 5b. For similar portraits of the Duke of York as a Knight of St. Patrick with the same backdrop see: (Chancellor) The Illustrated London News, 2 September 1897, p 311; (J. Robinson) Royal Photographic Collection, Windsor, Album Portraits, 1891-1899, ref 3/C/2. The backdrop was used by Lafayette on several other occasions, see The Navy and Army Illustrated, 12 June 1896, p 309 & 21 August 1896, p 3.
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