National Portrait Gallery - Person - Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)

Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro) (1859-1940), Actress

Sitter in 46 portraits
Actress. Anderson was born in Sacramento, California and made her stage début in 1875 as 'Juliet' in Louisville, Kentucky. She debuted in New York City in 1877 and in London in 1883 to great popular success. Following a tour of Britain with W.S. Gilbert's Pygmalion and Galatea and Comedy and Tragedy, Anderson performed again in London in her own version of The Winter's Tale (1887). In 1890 she married Antonio Fernando de Navarro, a fellow American practising as a barrister in England and settled at Court Farm in Broadway, Worcestershire. Anderson published two volumes of autobiography, A Few Memories (1896) and A Few More Memories(1936).

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Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro) as Julia in 'The Hunchback'

by Herbert Rose Barraud
albumen cabinet card, circa 1885
NPG x22235

Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro) as Julia in 'The Hunchback'

by W. & D. Downey
albumen cabinet card, circa 1885
NPG x318

Mary Anderson as Juliet; Mary Anne ('Fanny') Stirling as the Nurse in 'Romeo and Juliet'

by William Downey, for W. & D. Downey, published by Cassell & Company, Ltd
carbon print on card mount, circa 1885; published 1890
NPG x79

Mary Anderson as Juliet; Mary Anne ('Fanny') Stirling as the Nurse in 'Romeo and Juliet'

by William Downey, for W. & D. Downey
photogravure, (circa 1885)
NPG x38810

Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)

by Elliott & Fry
albumen cabinet card, 1886
NPG x78

Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)

by Elliott & Fry
albumen cabinet card, 1886
NPG x77

Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)

by Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print on cream card mount, 1886
NPG x127402

Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro) as Hermione in 'The Winter's Tale'

by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio), published by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
matte collodion printing-out paper panel card, 1887
NPG x135534