Giulia Grisi
(1810?-1869), SingerSitter in 24 portraits
Milan-born soprano Grisi dominated London opera in a career that spanned over three decades. From 1834 she performed in Rossini's La gazza ladra at the King's Theatre. She sang at the opening of the Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden in 1847 (now the Royal Opera House), and again in 1857 when the Royal Opera House reopened after it had been devastated by fire. She was widely considered to be one of the leading sopranos of the nineteenth century. Her unhappy marriage with her first husband led to an affair with Frederick William Robert Stewart from which they had one son, George Frederick Ormsby. Her second husband, with whom she had six daughters, was Giovanni Matteo de Candia (Mario), the celebrated tenor. She died in Berlin on 29 November 1869. Her body was taken to Paris where she was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
by Disdéri
albumen carte-de-visite, late 1850s-early 1860s
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by Negretti & Zambra
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1860s
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by Negretti & Zambra
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1860s
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by Horatio Nelson King
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
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'Upwards of five hundred photographic portraits of the most celebrated personages of the age'
by Frederick Holland Mares, after Disdéri, and Camille Silvy, and Duroni & Murer, and Émile Desmaisons, and John Jabez Edwin Mayall, and Herbert Watkins, and William Edward Kilburn, and Horatio Nelson King, and John & Charles Watkins, and James Mudd, and Unknown photographers, published by Ashford Brothers & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
On display in Room 22 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
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by Frederick Holland Mares, after Henry Hering, and Mayer Brothers, and Richard Burton & Co, and Disdéri, and Camille Silvy, and probably William Edward Kilburn, and Southwell Brothers, and John Burton, and Clarkington & Co (Charles Clarkington), and Unknown photographers, published by Ashford Brothers & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
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by Unknown artist
coloured lithograph, 1830s
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by Joseph Mathias Negelen, printed by Graf & Soret, published by John Mitchell
coloured lithograph, published 21 May 1835
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by Joseph Mathias Negelen, printed by Graf & Soret, published by John Mitchell
lithograph, published 21 May 1835
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by Joseph Mathias Negelen, printed by Graf & Soret, published by John Mitchell
lithograph, published 21 May 1835
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by Richard James Lane, printed by Graf & Soret, published by John Mitchell, published by Rittner & Goupil, after Alfred Edward Chalon
coloured lithograph, published 1 January 1836
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Giulia Grisi as Elvira; Luigi Lablache as Sir Georgio in Bellini's 'I Puritani'
by Richard James Lane, printed by Graf & Soret, published by John Mitchell, published by Rittner & Goupil, after Alfred Edward Chalon
coloured lithograph, published 1 January 1836
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Giulia Grisi as Elvira; Luigi Lablache as Sir Georgio in Bellini's 'I Puritani'
by Richard James Lane, printed by Graf & Soret, published by John Mitchell, published by Rittner & Goupil, after Alfred Edward Chalon
coloured lithograph, published 1 January 1836
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Giulia Grisi as Elvira; Luigi Lablache as Sir Georgio in Bellini's 'I Puritani'
by Richard James Lane, printed by Graf & Soret, published by John Mitchell, published by Rittner & Goupil, after Alfred Edward Chalon
coloured lithograph, published 1 January 1836
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by Richard James Lane, printed by Graf & Soret, published by John Mitchell, published by Rittner & Goupil, after Alfred Edward Chalon
lithograph, published 1 January 1836
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by Frederick Christian Lewis Sr, printed by McQueen (Macqueen), published by John Mitchell, published by Rittner & Goupil, after Joseph Mathias Negelen
stipple engraving, published 27 August 1839
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by Alphonse Léon Noël, printed by Lemercier, published by Piéri Benard, after François Bouchot
lithograph, 1840
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by Firmin Salabert, printed by Thierry Frères
coloured lithograph, 1840s
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by Firmin Salabert, printed by Thierry Frères
coloured lithograph, 1840s
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by Firmin Salabert, printed by Thierry Frères
coloured lithograph, 1840s
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