Mrs Patrick Campbell and an unknown woman
1 portrait of Mrs Patrick Campbell
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Mrs Patrick Campbell and an unknown woman
by Alfred Ellis
bromide print, circa 1899
5 5/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (144 mm x 100 mm) image size
Given by Terence Pepper, 2014
Photographs Collection
NPG x197922
Sitterback to top
- Mrs Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Campbell (née Tanner)) (1865-1940), Actress; former wife of Patrick Campbell, and later wife of George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West. Sitter in 26 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Alfred Ellis (1854-1930), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 186 portraits.
Events of 1899back to top
Current affairs
George Nathaniel Curzon, Lord Curzon, is appointed Viceroy of India, pursuing a mixed policy of forceful control and conciliation. Curzon's inquiries into Indian administration result in legislation in areas including education, irrigation, and policing. The Board of Education is created to co-ordinate the work of higher grade elementary schools, county technical schools and endowed grammar schools, also setting up a register of teachers.Art and science
The Italian Guglielmo Marconi transmits the first wireless telegraph, between France and England across the English Channel, a distance of 32 miles. Marconi's production of waves over long distances lays the foundations for the development of the radio. Later this year, Marconi demonstrates his invention in America, at the Cup yacht race, and for the American navy.International
Outbreak of the second Boer war, fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. Despite a disastrous start, Britain quickly won the war, although guerilla warfare continued until 1902, leading to the introduction of concentration camps by British commander Lord Kitchener, a measure which contributes to the British public's growing disillusionment with the campaign.Comments back to top
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Jonathan Glendening
19 November 2020, 11:57
Mrs Patrick Campbell starred as the bedridden Clara Sang in Beyond Human Power by Björnstjerne Björnson - from November 7th 1901. This photograph is clearly from that play (if not that particular production as she toured it in America), so your circa 1899 is a year out at least. The other actress is possibly Mrs Theodore Wright (as her sister)