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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
George Arliss with Dog
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

George Arliss with Dog

primary (Boston, 1910-1913 - about 1931)
subject (London, 1868 - 1946, London)
Dateabout 1913
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumPlatinum print
Dimensions25.4 x 17.8 cm (10 x 7 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.007866
eMuseum ID723045
EmbARK ObjectID33641
TMS Source ID17123
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner loved music and theater, and was a patron of the performing arts. She befriended artists, musicians, authors, and actors and memorialized her talented friends in thematically arranged glass-topped cases like the Modern Actors Case in the Long Gallery. One of her theatrical friends was George Arliss (1858–1946)— the first British actor to win an Academy Award.

Arliss wrote to Isabella in 1913, "I send you a large photograph, in the faint hope of expressing by its size the length and breadth of my regard. But realizing the relative value of space in your wonderful house and a large picture of myself, I send you a small photograph in the hope that you will give it a place amongst your many friends."

Isabella kept this photograph of Arliss with a dog in her personal treasure trove, the Vatichino.
BibliographyNotesElizabeth Reluga, "George Arliss's Hamilton," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 30 June 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/george-arliss-hamilton
MarksNotesSigned in ink (under image): Yours / George Arliss
ProvenanceNotesGift of actor George Arliss (1868 - 1946) to Isabella Stewart Gardner probably on the 18 February 1913.