The Strand Magazine/Volume 2/Issue 12/Portraits of Celebrities
Portraits of Celebrities at different times of their Lives.
MISS MARY ANDERSON.
(Madame Antonio Navarro).
Age 18.Age 16.Age 22.
From a Photograph.From a Photo.From a Photo. by Barraud.
 From a Photo. by Vanderweyde. |
 From a Photo. by Venderweyde. |
ISS MARY ANDERSON was born at Sacramento, and made her first appearance on the stage as Juliet in her seventeenth year the age at which our first portrait represents her. From that day down to the early part of 1890 her career was one long course of unchecked prosperity and popularity, only broken by her withdrawal from the stage on her marriage with M. Antonio Navarro de Viana, a citizen of New York. Madame Navarro and her husband have taken up their residence at Tunbridge Wells.
ANDREW LANG.
Born 1844.
R. ANDREW LANG was born at Selkirk, March 31, 1844, and was educated at Edinburgh, St. Andrews, and Oxford, where he took high honours. Mr. Lang is well known as one of the most versatile and charming writers of the day. It apparently makes little difference to him whether he is producing a ballad, a set of society verses, a leading article in The Daily News, a translation of a classic, a history of religions, or a biography; everything he does is marked by the same peculiar charm of style and treatment which has made his name familiar to a host of readers.
LORD COLERIDGE.
Born 1821.
Age 70
From a Photo. by Whitlock, Birmingham.
HE RIGHT HON. JOHN DUKE COLERIDGE, Lord Chief Justice of England, was born at Heath's Court, Ottery
St. Mary, and educated at Eton (at which time our second portrait represents him), and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was an undergraduate at nineteen, the age of our third portrait. He was called to the Bar in 1846, and after a brilliant career was, at fifty, the age of our fourth portrait, made Attorney-General. Two years later he was raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Coleridge, of Ottery St. Mary. In 1880 he was made Lord Chief Justice of England, and is, as need hardly here be added, one of the most brilliant ornaments of the British bench, which consists, now as ever, of some of the finest intellects and characters of their generation.
PRINCE BISMARCK.
Born 1815.
 From a Painting. |
 From a Drawing by Von Kessel. |
 From a Drawing.From a Drawing.From an Oil Painting by J. Pecker. | |
 From a Painting by Von Leubach. |
 From a Photo. by Loescher & Petsch, Berlin. |
RINCE BISMARCK was at 13 a pupil in the Frederick William Gymnasium at Berlin; at 17 a student at the University of Gottingen; at 23 and 30, a country gentleman on his father's Pomeranian estates; at 40, ambassador at Paris; at 51, the conqueror at Sadowa. What Prince Bismarck is at the present day is known to all the world.
JOSEPH PARKER, D.D.
Born 1830.
 From a Photo. by Duval & Co., Manchester. |
 From a Photo. by Petschler. |
 From a Photo. by London Stereo. Co. |
 From a Photo. by G. R. Lavis, Eastbourne. |
R. PARKER, who was born at Hexham-on-Tyne, was educated at University College, London. At the age in which he is represented in our first portrait he had just left his pastorate at Bunbury to take up the work at Manchester, with which he was conspicuously occupied for over ten years. At forty, the age depicted in our third portrait, Dr. Parker had recently come to London, where he built the City Temple at the cost of £70,000, and where his fervid eloquence attracts huge congregations.
A. CONAN DOYLE.
Born 1859.
Age 4.Age 14.Age 22.
From a Photo.From a Photo. by Campbell, Edinburgh.From a Photo. by Bashford, Portobello.
Age 32.
From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry.
R. A. CONAN DOYLE was born in Edinburgh. His grandfather was John Doyle the caricaturist, better known as "H. B.," and his uncles, Richard Doyle of Punch, James Doyle the historian, and Henry Doyle, C.B., director of the Irish Academy. He was brought up to medicine, and after two long voyages, one to the Arctic seas in a Greenland whaler, and the other to the West Coast of Africa, he settled into practice at Southsea. Ever since 1878 he had been a contributor to various magazines. Finally, he brought out "Micah Clarke," which, after being refused by five publishers, was eventually taken by Longmans, and is now going into its sixth edition. Finding literary work more and more engrossing, he gave up the medical profession and devoted his whole energies to authorship. There are few better writers of short stories than Mr. Conan Doyle, and it gives us great pleasure to announce that the extraordinary adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which have proved so popular with our readers during the past six months, will be continued in the new year. Mr. Conan Doyle is very keen on every form of sport—football, cycling, and especially cricket.
MADAME CATHINCA AMYOT.
 From a Photograph. |
 From a Photo. by Hansen & Weller. |
 From a Photo. by Hansen & Weller. |
 From a Photo. by Vandyk. |
ADAME AMYOT, the clever painter of "Tit-Bits," the picture which proved so popular when presented with the first number of this magazine, and also of the equally clever companion picture, entitled "Scattered Tit-Bits," which is given with the present number, was born at Copenhagen. She began to draw at a very early age, but she was twenty before her father allowed her to study art as a profession. At Dusseldorf, and afterwards at Christiania and Stockholm, she studied assiduously, and painted some important pictures. In 1877 and 1878 she had pictures on the line at the Paris Salon. In the latter year she married Mr. Thomas Amyot, an English doctor, and soon afterwards settled in London, where her pictures appear in all the chief exhibitions. It may be of interest to add that the boy in the two "Tit-Bits" pictures is a portrait of her own little son.