"Uncle Jack" has arrived - a photo on Flickriver

            One of several portraits of John Martin Harvey made in 1899 by Violet Granby, Duchess of Rutland. 

Others are in the Louvre, the Watts Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Reproduced in The Book of Martin Harvey [1930], this is described in that work as an etching. It is a reproduction (I wonder if the original still exists?) but it's not an etching.

Sir John describes sitting for the Duchess in his Autobiography (1933):

To one of those majestic backwaters, so solemn, so quiet, yet within a stone's-throw of Piccadilly - to one of those unpromising and gloomy houses looking over St James's Park, so unpretentious, even forbidding, without, so restful and regal within - it was my privilege to repair when engagements permitted. There, clad in the garments of Sydney Carton, I would sit for many a pleasant hour while the gracious Violet, Duchess of Rutland, would make all-too-flattering drawings of that hero, and Lady Marjorie (now Marchioness of Anglesea) and Miss Pamela Plowden (afterwards the Countess of Lytton) would alternately read aloud an essay of Macaulay, and the "silken, sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain" would move to the breeze which brought in the distant rumble of Piccadilly.

Taken on: October 26, 2011

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Sets appears in: • John Martin Harvey • My Harvey family

Groups appears in: • Victorian and Edwardian Theatre

Camera: HTC Desire HD, 4.6mm, ISO 164 (more info) (hide info)

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