Pattie Oliver
(1834-1880), ActorMartha Cranmer ('Pattie') Oliver
Sitter in 5 portraits
Oliver was the daughter of a scene-painter, and she appeared on stage for the first time when she was just six years old. She made her London début when she was thirteen. She became the leading actress in comedy and burlesque for several seasons at the Strand Theatre, where her parts included Amy Robsart in Ye Queen, ye Earl, and ye Maiden. Oliver became manager of the New Royalty Theatre in 1866 and opened with a revival of Taylor's The Ticket-of-Leave Man. Later that year she staged the hugely successful burlesque The Latest Edition of Black-Eyed Susan, or, The Little Bill that was Taken Up. The piece had an unprecedented run of over four hundred performances.
by Herbert Watkins
albumen print, arched top, late 1850s
NPG P301(42)
Misses Wright and Oliver (Rosina Wright; Pattie Oliver)
by Herbert Watkins
albumen print, arched top, late 1850s
NPG P301(71)
by Heath & Beau
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861-1863
NPG x193205
by Ernest Edwards
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863-1867
NPG x21681
Pattie Oliver as Mrs Candour in 'The School For Scandal'
by Elliott & Fry
woodburytype on card mount, 1872
NPG Ax7617
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Susanne Holt
20 March 2016, 18:17
Martha Cranmer Oliver was the daughter of John Cranmer Penson, an actor and theatre manager who lived for some years with her mother, the actress Ann Oliver in Salisbury. Her sister was Frances Cranmer Oliver who married the actor Frederick Hastings Bullen in Dublin in 1848. Their daughter, Kate Hastings, married Martha's widower, William Charles Phillips the auctioneer of New Bond Street after she died in 1880.