Ellen Terry
(1847-1928), ActressDame Ellen Alice Terry
Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 205 portraits
Born in Coventry where her actor parents were on tour. Terry was one of eleven siblings and won fame as a child first appearing on stage in 1856 with Charles Kean. Married the painter G.F. Watts in 1864 but separated within a year. Terry had two children by the architect Edward Godwin, Edith Craig and Edward Gordon Craig. Returned to stage in 1872 to establish herself as a leading actress with the Bancroft's and John Hare's company. She performed her most memorable roles under the management of Henry Irving with whom she undertook provincial tours and toured America seven times. In later life she continued to act but also produced plays, lectured and wrote.
published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, circa 1905
NPG x197656
published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, circa 1905
NPG x197936
Ellen Terry as Alice Grey in 'Alice Sit-by-the-Fire'
by Window & Grove, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1905
NPG x197940
Ellen Terry as Alice Grey in 'Alice Sit-by-the-Fire'
by Window & Grove, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1905
NPG x197941
published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd, after Window & Grove, and Unknown photographer
bromide postcard print, published circa 1905
NPG x196253
by Foulsham & Banfield, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
postcard print, probably 1907
NPG x201238
by Foulsham & Banfield, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
postcard print, probably 1907
NPG x201239
by Foulsham & Banfield, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
postcard print, probably 1907
NPG x201240
by Foulsham & Banfield, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
postcard print, probably 1907
NPG x201241
Ellen Terry as Lady Cecily Waynflete in 'Captain Brassbound's Conversion'
by Window & Grove
platinum print, 1906, published 1906
NPG Ax131329
Ellen Terry as Lady Cecily Waynflete in 'Captain Brassbound's Conversion'
by Foulsham & Banfield, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
postcard print, 1906
NPG x17044
by Lallie Charles, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons
bromide postcard print, circa 1906
NPG x160596
Ellen Terry as Lady Cecily Waynflete in 'Captain Brassbound's Conversion'
by Window & Grove
bromide print, 1906
NPG x197657
Ellen Terry as Lady Cecily Waynflete in 'Captain Brassbound's Conversion'
by William Henry Grove, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1906
NPG x197928
Ellen Terry as Lady Cecily Waynflete in 'Captain Brassbound's Conversion'
by William Henry Grove, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1906
NPG x197929
by Window & Grove, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1906
NPG x197930
by R. Johnson, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1906
NPG x197931
by R. Johnson, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons
bromide postcard print, 1906
NPG x197933
by Lallie Charles, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, circa 1906
NPG x193119
by Lallie Charles, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons
bromide postcard print, circa 1906
NPG x193120
by Lallie Charles, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons
bromide postcard print, circa 1906
NPG x193121
'A Jubilee Souvenir of England's Greatest Actress' (Ellen Terry)
published by Rapid Photo Co, after Unknown photographer, and Horatio Nelson King, and Window & Grove, and Lafayette
bromide postcard print, 1906
NPG x196911
'Mr. & Mrs. James Carew (Miss Ellen Terry)'
published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd, after R. Johnson
bromide postcard print, published 1907
NPG x197932
by John Mills, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1908
NPG x197950
Probably Elizabeth Rumball (née Bocking); Ellen Terry; Rosemary ('Rosie') Nell Ann Craig
by Alex Ridley
bromide print, 1910s
NPG x46545
by Lena Connell (later Beatrice Cundy)
bromide press print, 1910s
NPG x198244
by Bain News Service
bromide print, 2 May 1915
NPG x197889
by John Copperfield
bromide print, 1918
NPG x19013
Ellen Terry as the Nurse in 'Romeo and Juliet'
by E.O. Hoppé, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1919
NPG x134436
Ellen Terry as the Nurse in 'Romeo and Juliet'
by Emil Otto ('E.O.') Hoppé, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1919
NPG x200176
after London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
gelatin silver print, circa early 1870s; printed 1924?
NPG x198347
by Ridley's Studios
postcard print, 1925
NPG x17046
by Ridley's Studios
postcard print, 1925
NPG x17047
'A Comparison' (Queen Elizabeth I; Queen Victoria; Britannia; Ellen Terry as Hamlet)
by William Frederick Measom
wood engraving, published 24 March 1869
NPG D47435
by Anna Lea Merritt
etching, 1880
NPG D4091
Ellen Terry as the Countess de St Valery in 'The Dead Heart'
by Bernard Partridge
black and white gouache, circa 1889
NPG D6650
Ellen Terry as Catherine Duval in 'The Dead Heart'
by Bernard Partridge
black and white gouache, circa 1889
NPG D6651
Ellen Terry as the Countess de St Valery in 'The Dead Heart'
by Bernard Partridge
black and white gouache, circa 1889
NPG D6652
Ellen Terry and Sir Henry Irving as Ophelia and Hamlet
published by William Axon Mansell & Co, after Edward H. Bell
aquatint photogravure, published 1908 (1879)
NPG D48658
by P.M.
pen and ink
NPG D6649
Related People
- James Carew (husband)
- Edith Ailsa Geraldine Craig (daughter)
- (Edward Henry) Gordon Craig (son)
- David Lees (grandson)
- Marion Bessie Terry (sister)
- George Frederic Watts (husband)
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