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Catalogue Number: G0323 Technique: Painting Oil on canvas Title/Subject: Sir Henry Irving Character: Play: Artist: Sir John Everett Millais 1883 Dimensions (cm): H: 110.5  W: 80  D: Other materials: Inscription: "18 [Millais monogram] 83 " (dark brown paint b. l.) Inventory History: RW/CKA 382 (repr); Gift 196 (frame: Gift 202) Provenance: Presented by the artist, 1884 (according to the R. A. catalogue), 1886 (according to CKA); frame presented by T. O. Barlow, R. A. , 1886 Exhibition History: 1884 London, R. A. (372); 1886 London, Grosvenor Gallery, "Summer Exhibition"; 1949 Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery, "Theatre Exhibition" (147); 1951 London, Tate Gallery, "Pictures from the Garrick Club" (31) Related Works: NPG 1453 oil on canvas 109.2 x 78.7, copy by Harry Allen, given by the Garrick Club 1907 Engraving History: Literature: Fitzgerald pp. 230-32; Griffiths p. 341 Three-quarter-length, facing left. Irving wears morning dress. He has a grey cravat with a gold pin. The carved frame includes the Garrick Club crest and motto. Millais, himself a member of the Garrick Club, 'generally spent his evenings there', in the company of men like Irving and Hare (see G0282). (J. G. Millais, “The Life and Work of Sir John Everett Millais” [1899], 2: 250.)

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