The Brothers Sarony
Past display archive
20 October 2009 - 13 June 2010
Room 28 case display
Free
Sarah Bernhardt in 'Frou-Frou'
by Napoleon Sarony
1880
NPG x1191
In 1877 the Photographic News announced that Oliver’s premises was ‘probably the largest establishment devoted to photography in the world’. He brought so much business to the town that the square in which his studio stood was renamed Sarony Square. Napoleon became so successful that in 1871 he expanded his Broadway premises to an entire building for which he paid $8000 rental a year. At his death The New York Times estimated he had made over 40 000 negatives of show business personalities.
Featured sitters include Adah Menken, Sarah Bernhardt, Walt Whitman, Matthew Arnold and Princess Louise, The Duchess of Argyll.
Related portraits
- Oscar Wilde (NPG P24)
- Oscar Wilde (NPG P1133)
- Oliver François Xavier Sarony (NPG x131010)
- Katharine Hickson (NPG Ax16405)
- Joseph Charles Parkinson (NPG Ax29687)
- Walter Bache (NPG Ax38139)
- Edward Askew Sothern as David Garrick in 'David Garrick' (NPG Ax25095)
- Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (NPG Ax38149)
- Kate Josephine Bateman as Leah in 'Leah, the Forsaken' (NPG x242)
- Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa, Duchess of Cambridge (NPG x5029)
- George Philip Cecil Arthur Stanhope, 7th Earl of Chesterfield (NPG Ax5097)
- Adelaide Ristori as Mary Stuart in 'Mary Stuart' (NPG x38884)
- Carlotta Patti (NPG Ax25076)
- Princess Helena Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (NPG x15571)
- Cora Adriana (NPG x14)
- Charles Albert Fechter as Hamlet in 'Hamlet' (NPG x11885)
- Sir Charles Santley (NPG Ax28530)
- Sarah Bernhardt in 'Frou-Frou' (NPG x1191)
- Matthew Arnold (NPG x126743)
- Walt Whitman (NPG x15420)
- Maxine Elliott (Jessie Dermott) (NPG x25908)
Related sitters
- Cora Adriana
- Matthew Arnold
- Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa, Duchess of Cambridge
- Walter Bache
- Kate Josephine Crowe (née Bateman)
- Sarah Henriette Rosine Bernhardt
- George Philip Cecil Arthur Stanhope, 7th Earl of Chesterfield
- Maxine Elliott (Jessie Dermott)
- Charles Albert Fechter
- Katharine Hickson
- Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, Duchess of Argyll
- Joseph Charles Parkinson
- Carlotta Patti
- Adelaide Ristori
- Sir Charles Santley
- Oliver François Xavier Sarony
- Edward Askew Sothern
- Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
- Walter ('Walt') Whitman
- Oscar Wilde