Miniature
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ヴィクトリア&アルバート博物館
ロンドン, イギリス
コレクションに属していますが、現在は展示されていません。
- 確認
- 7 日前
- この状態になった日
- 2026年9月25日
- 出典
- 美術館自身の所蔵データ
About the painting
This miniature is of Sir Henry Irving, the first actor ever to be awarded a knighthood for services to the theatre, and from his appearance as an elderly man with grey, receding hair, it seems as if would have been painted near the end of his life. Irving was a committed and passionate actor-manager who dominated the stage in the last thirty years of Queen Victoria's reign and who made his name at London's Lyceum Theatre which he managed from 1878.
Read on
Born in Somerset, Irving made his first professional appearance in Sunderland in 1856 and in London at the Lyceum Theatre in 1871. He became an overnight success after his appearance there as the Polish Jew in Leopold Lewis's play The Bells. He went on to star in a huge number of plays at the Lyceum, on tour in England, in Canada and America. He received several honours during his lifetime, and many memorial images were struck in his honour after his death in 1905 while on tour in Bradford, after playing the title part Becket, one of his favourite roles.
ヴィクトリア&アルバート博物館
作品データ
- 収蔵番号
- S.730-1997
What it shows
出典
- ヴィクトリア&アルバート博物館: the museum's own open data · 7 日前に取得
- 画像： ヴィクトリア&アルバート博物館 — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
