Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)
(1859-1940), ActressSitter in 53 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).
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1894
NPG x96442
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1894
NPG x96443
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1894
NPG x96444
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1894
NPG x96446
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1894
NPG x96447
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)
by Alexander Bassano
albumen cabinet card, 1894
NPG x127356
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)
by Nadar, published by Ogden's
bromide cigarette card, published circa 1902
NPG x193173
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)
by Bassano Ltd
vintage bromide print on grey card and photographer's mount, 1916
NPG x127496
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro) as Galatea
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
vintage bromide print, 1916
NPG x68857
Antonio Fernando de Navarro; Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)
copy by Lafayette
half-plate glass negative, 4 September 1928 (1890)
NPG x42729
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro) as Galatea
by H.W.B. (H.W. Batley?)
etching, 1880s
NPG D7014
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1894
NPG x96445
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro)
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1894
NPG x96448
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