Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
(1855-1934), PlaywrightSitter in 24 portraits
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero was a leading playwright of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Born into an English family descended from Portuguese Jews, Pinero abandoned legal studies at nineteen to become an actor. His first play, £200 a Year, was produced in 1877. His best farces, such as The Magistrate (1885), The Schoolmistress (1886) and Dandy Dick (1887), were written for the Royal Court Theatre in London. It was his play The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1893) that established Pinero as an important playwright. It was serious and yet sentimental, and was the first of several plays he wrote that depicted women battling with the strictures of Victorian society.
by Harry Furniss
pen and ink, circa 1885-1923
NPG 4095(9)
by Joseph Mordecai
oil on canvas, exhibited 1891
NPG 2761
by Bernard Partridge
pencil, chalk and wash, published in Punch 28 September 1927
NPG 3675
by Walery, published by Sampson Low & Co
carbon print, published June 1890
NPG Ax38330
by Walery, published by Sampson Low & Co
carbon print, published June 1890
NPG Ax9163
by W. & D. Downey
albumen cabinet card, 1893
NPG x31031
by Alfred Ellis
carbon print, published July 1893
NPG x12458
by W. & D. Downey, published by Cassell & Company, Ltd
carbon print, 1893, published 1894
NPG Ax27895
by W. & D. Downey, published by Cassell & Company, Ltd
carbon print, 1893, published 1894
NPG x12459
published by Ogden's
cigarette card, published circa 1894-1907
NPG x136685
by Frederick Hollyer
platinotype cabinet card, 1895 or before
NPG x12457
by Frederic G. Hodsoll
gelatin silver chloride printing-out paper print, 1900s
NPG Ax29622
published by George G. Harrap & Company, printed by The Vandyck Printers Ltd
photogravure, 1911, published 1915
NPG Ax199045
by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
bromide print, circa 1916
NPG Ax39162
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero ('Men of the Day. No. 500.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 7 March 1891
NPG D44532
by William Rothenstein
lithograph, (1897)
NPG D40226
by Sir Max Beerbohm
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 1 February 1906
NPG D45312
after Frederick Drummond Niblett ('Nibs')
coloured print, published 1908 (1907)
NPG D9535
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 3 February 1915
NPG x18103
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 3 February 1915
NPG x18104
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