The Strand Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 3/Portraits of Celebrities

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Portraits of Celebrities at different times of their Lives.

HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA.

Age 6 months.
From a drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.

Age 45.
From a Painting by A. Graefle.

Age 8.
From a Miniature.

Present Day.
From a Photo. by Wallery.

Age 18.
From a Drawing by R. Lane, A.R.A.

E here present a series of portraits of the Queen, which, together with the portrait given on our first page, completely represent the features of Her Majesty from babyhood until the present day.

PRINCESS BEATRICE.

Born 1857.

Age 4.
From a Photograph.

Age 7.
From a Painting by Lauchert.

Age 17.
From a Lithograph by Maclure & Macdonald.

Present day.
From a Photo. by Messrs. Elliott & Fry.

T is fitting that next the portraits of Her Majesty the Queen should be placed those of the daughter who has been her most constant companion of late years.

THE EMPRESS FREDERICK OF GERMANY.

Age 12 months.
From a Miniature by W. C. Ross, A.R.A., Miniature Painter to the Queen.

Age 6.
From a Painting.

Age 18.
From a Picture by F. Winterhalter.

Present day.
From a Photo. by Byrne & Co., Richmond.

ABY, child, bride, and widow—such are the four portraits of the Queen's eldest daughter which we give above. An earlier portrait even than the first of these, and one of the most interesting in existence, is that which the Queen with her own hand depicted of her baby while it was still in swaddling-clothes, and which we have the pleasure of presenting to our readers as the frontispiece of the present number.

THE DUKE OF ARGYLL.

Born 1823.

Age 28.
From a Drawing by J. E. Swinton.

Age 45.
From a Photo. by Messrs. Elliott & Fry.

Age 67.
From a Photo. by Messrs. Elliott & Fry.

T the age of eight-and-twenty the Duke of Argyll, who had succeeded to the dukedom four years earlier, was already well known as a writer, a politician, and a public speaker, and as one who took keen interest in all Scottish questions which came before the public. At this age, also, he was elected Chancellor of the University of St. Andrews, and was already, what he has since remained, one of the most prominent figures in the House of Lords. The Duke, who has held many of the highest offices in various Governments, was, at the age at which he is represented in our second picture, Secretary of State for India under Mr. Gladstone. But as a politician the Duke's position is not easy to define; he has been described as "Whig by family, Liberal by intellect, Independent by nature, and Conservative by inclination." But it is in questions of science and theology rather than in politics that the Duke's name is known, and his most celebrated book, "The Reign of Law," was considered by Darwin himself so powerful an attack upon the Theory of Descent as to call for special refutation.

H. BEERBOHM TREE.

Age 5.
From a Photograph.

Age 17.
From a Photo. by The Stereoscopic Co.

Age 29.
From a Photo. by A. Bassano.

Age 36.
From a Photo. by The Stereoscopic Co.

HE first photograph we give of Mr. Herbert Beerbohm Tree, shows him at the age of five, then a cherubic and rosy boy of seemingly serious disposition. The second likeness represents him at seventeen, soon after he had left the college of Schnepfenthal in Thuringia, where he received his education, but where, according to his own modest statement, he acquired no distinction in the walks of learning. But so great was his evident talent for acting that he was persuaded to adopt the stage as a profession, with what instant success we all know. He became manager of the Haymarket in 1887. As a manager he has shown not only enterprise, but an almost quixotic liberality. His latest Monday night venture has proved one of the happiest of his many happy thoughts.

For leave to reproduce these portraits we have to thank the kindness of Mr. Beerbohm Tree.

WILLIAM BLACK.

Born 1841.

Age 20.
From a Photo. by Cramb Bros., Glasgow.

Age 30.
From a Photo. by Sarony, Birmingham.

R. BLACK'S ambition as a boy was to become an artist, and he studied for a short time in the School of Art at Glasgow, in which city he was born.

Age 45.
From a Photo. by Messrs. Elliott & Fry.

"As an artist," he tells us, "I was a complete failure, and so qualified myself for a time in after life as an critic." Yet in feeling for the beauty of sea, forest, moor, and hill, and in graphic power of painting them in words, Mr. Black has rarely had a rival. At twenty, the age at which our first portrait shows him, he had already turned to journalism, and was writing in the Glasgow Weekly Citizen. Three years afterwards he came to London, where he wrote for newspapers and magazines. During the Prusso-Austrian War of 1866 he acted as the Special Correspondent of the Morning Star. Scenes taken from his adventures appeared in his first novel, "Love or Marriage," which he wrote on his return. Several other novels followed during the next four or five years, none of which had any great success; but in 1871, just at the age depicted in our second portrait, Mr. Black produced the striking story—"A Daughter of Heth." Since then, his books have become household words, and probably no living author has given pleasure to so many readers by means once so simple and so fine. With less of plot and startling incident than almost any novelist, Mr. Black has two points of excellence in which he stands alone—in power of painting scenery and of depicting charming girls.

We are indebted for these portraits to the courtesy of Mr. Black.

CHARLES WYNDHAM.

Age 18.
From a Miniature.

Age 22.
From a Photo. by Purviance, New York.

R. CHARLES WYNDHAM was, at eighteen, the age at which our first portrait represents him, a medical student at Liverpool,
Present day.
From a Photo. by Vernon Heath. at which city he was born; but having taken his degrees of L.R.C.S. and L.S.A., he went, at twenty-one, to America, and made his first appearance as an actor at Washington, with John Wilkes Booth, to whose Hamlet he played Osric. Booth, who perhaps was never wholly sane, and who three years later made himself a name of world-wide infamy by shooting President Lincoln in a theatre-box, saw so little sign of genius in the new actor that he discharged him for incompetency. Mr. Wyndham then served as surgeon to the 19th Army Corps, and was present at some of the most deadly battles of the Civil War. His appearance at that time was that of our second portrait, which represents him in his uniform. Two years later, on his return to England, he again went on the boards, and entered at once upon the career which has long been recognised as that of the finest light comedian at present on the stage.

HENRY M. STANLEY.

Age 19.
From a Photograph.

Age 22.
From a Photograph.

Age 26.
From a Photo. by Rockwell & Co., New York.

Age 31.
From a Photo. by The Stereoscopic Co.

Present day.
From a Photo. by John Fergus, Cannes.

T 19, John Rowlands, a poor Welsh boy, had emigrated to America, had been adopted by a merchant of the name of Stanley, and had assumed the latter name. At 22, his adopting father having died without a will, young Stanley was serving as a petty officer on board the war-ship Minnesota. At 26 he had become a journalist, and was about to represent the New York Herald with the British army in Abyssinia. On returning from this expedition he delivered lectures on his adventures, a handbill of which we reproduce on the page opposite, as a veritable curiosity. At 31 he had discovered Dr. Livingstone, and had returned with glory. What Mr. Stanley has done recently is known to all the world.