George Arliss
photographer
Unknown
Dateabout 1913
Place MadeNew York, United States, North America
MediumCollodion print on card
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.009785
eMuseum ID730941
Other NumberARC.009149
EmbARK ObjectID46208
TMS Source ID22447
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on viewWeb 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 of the Museum. 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 in her personal treasure trove, the Vatichino.
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 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
MarksNotesInscribed and signed in ink (recto, bottom): To Mrs. John L. Gardner / with my sincere regards George Arliss
ProvenanceNotesGift of actor George Arliss (1868 - 1946) to Isabella Stewart Gardner probably on 18 February 1913.
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