M. P.‘s in Session

The Commons has been summoned to the Upper House—and at Westminster, even Gladstone’s collar can be got up. Harry Furniss’s gallery promises “speaking likenesses” that speak for their subjects and their artists.

In the British Parliament of the 1880s, public life is a stage, and its Members of Parliament arrive ready to be seen. Furniss turns politicians including Gladstone, Joseph Chamberlain and Henry Chaplin into comic portraits, catching the poses, quirks and rivalries that official speeches might leave out. Here, a head can be lost, a member can become wrong-headed, and a portrait can deliver its own pointed commentary. Which of Westminster’s grand figures will look less commanding when the artist has the last word?

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