Jerome Klapka Jerome
(1859-1927), Novelist and playwrightSitter in 32 portraits
Jerome left school at fourteen and initially worked as a clerk for a railway company, and then as an actor. He gave up the stage in favour of writing and journalism, publishing his first book On the Stage - and Off in 1885. His most famous book Three Men in a Boat, 1889, has remained a popular classic, and has been filmed three times. He wrote several plays and worked as an editor on The Idler and To-Day magazines. During the First World War he served as an ambulance driver with the French army (he was too old for the British Army). He wrote his autobiography My Life and Times in 1926.
by Solomon Joseph Solomon
oil on panel, circa 1889
NPG 4492
by Philip Alexius de László
oil on canvas, 1921
NPG 4491
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Eglington & Co
carbon print, published 1 June 1890
NPG Ax9370
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Eglington & Co
carbon print, published 1893
NPG Ax27638
by W. & D. Downey, published by Cassell & Company, Ltd
carbon print, published 1893
NPG Ax16151
published by Ogden's
cigarette card, published circa 1894-1907
NPG x136534
published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, circa 1903
NPG x196478
by Frederic G. Hodsoll
glossy sepia bromide print, circa 1904
NPG Ax25180
by Mendoza Galleries
platinotype on card mount, 1910s
NPG x29905
by and after Bassano Ltd
printing-out paper print, 1914
NPG Ax136959
by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
bromide print, circa 1916
NPG Ax39112
by Hay Wrightson
platinum print on card mount, 1920s
NPG x11843
Marian Stoll; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Jerome Klapka Jerome
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
NPG Ax141971
Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Jerome Klapka Jerome
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax141433
Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Virginia Woolf; Jerome Klapka Jerome
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
NPG Ax141438
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 May 1924
NPG x18555
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 May 1924
NPG x18557
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 May 1924
NPG x18558
by Frank Arthur Swaine
sepia-toned bromide print, circa 1926
NPG x11844
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