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Paintings: G0323
Title
Sir Henry Irving
Technique
Oil on canvas
Subject
Artist
Date
1883
Dimensions
Height: 110.5cm
Width: 80cm
height (frame): 180cm
width (frame): 117cm
Width: 80cm
height (frame): 180cm
width (frame): 117cm
Inscription/signature
"18 [Millais monogram] 83 " (dark brown paint b. l.)
Provenance
Presented by the artist, 1884 (according to the R. A. catalogue), 1886 (according to CKA); frame presented by T. O. Barlow, R. A. , 1886
Other number
RW/CKA 382 (repr)
Gift 196 (frame: Gift 202)
Gift 196 (frame: Gift 202)
Exhibition history
1884 London, R. A. (372)
1886 London, Grosvenor Gallery, "Summer Exhibition"
1949 Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery, "Theatre Exhibition" (147)
1951 London, Tate Gallery, "Pictures from the Garrick Club" (31)
1967 London, R. A., Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, "Millais: PRB, PRA"
2005-06 London, National Portrait Gallery, "Henry Irving, a Centenary Display"
Related works
NPG 1453 oil on canvas 109.2 x 78.7, copy by Harry Allen, given by the Garrick Club 1907
Engraving history
T.O. Barlow RA 1885 mezzotint 59.4 x 43.5 (plate)
Literature
Fitzgerald pp. 230-32; Griffiths p. 341
Three-quarter-length, facing left. Irving wears morning dress. He has a grey cravat with a gold pin. The carved frame includes the Garrick Club crest and motto.
Millais, himself a member of the Garrick Club, 'generally spent his evenings there', in the company of men like Irving and Hare (see G0282). (J. G. Millais, “The Life and Work of Sir John Everett Millais” [1899], 2: 250.)
Millais, himself a member of the Garrick Club, 'generally spent his evenings there', in the company of men like Irving and Hare (see G0282). (J. G. Millais, “The Life and Work of Sir John Everett Millais” [1899], 2: 250.)
