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PORTRAITS OF CELEBRITIES.
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ARTHUR W. PINERO.

Born 1855.

Age 7.
From a Photo. by I. Schultz, Greenwich.
Age 19.
From a Photo. by C. Watkins, London.
Age 23.
From a Photo. by R. F. Barnes, New Cross.
Age 35.
From a Photo. by Window & Grove.

THE first portrait of Mr. Pinero shows him at the age of seven. The second portrait, taken at nineteen, marks an era in his life, for it was in that year he became an actor. At twenty-three he began, as he describes it, "to write little plays." His fourth portrait was taken in 1890, long before which he had firmly established his position as one of the few leading dramatists of the age.