The Strand Magazine/Volume 4/Issue 23/Portraits of Celebrities
Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives.
MADAME AMY SHERWIN.
Present Day.
From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry.
ME. AMY SHERWIN, whose vocal gifts are well known to every lover of music, is a native of Tasmania, and enjoys the unique distinction of being the first Australian lady who has won the position of a prima donna in Great Britain. Mr. N. Vert and Dr. Hans Richter were the first in this country to recognise her great abilities, from which time forth her name has been conspicuous in the programmes of the most important London concerts. She help the position of leading lady vocalist in Sims Reeves' farewell tour; while, in the Patti concerts at the Albert Hall, her success has been so pronounced that her reappearance there on the 10th of the present month has been looked forward by a great number of admirers. Mme. Amy Sherwin's position on the concert platform may be compared with interest with that of Madame Melba, who figures as the leading Australian vocalist on the operatic stage.
THE PRINCE OF NAPLES.
Born 1869.
 From a Photo. by Montabone, Milan. |
 From a Photo. by Mauri, Naples. |
Age 22.
From a Photo. by F. d’Alessandri, Rome.
ICTOR EMMANUEL FERDINAND MARIE JANUARIUS, Prince of Naples, who has been recently visiting this country, is the son and heir of the King and Queen of Italy. He was born at Naples on the 11th of November, 1869, and will therefore celebrate his twenty-third birthday just about the date at which this notice will be in our readers' hands. He has been brought up as a soldier, and now holds the rank of colonel, but he is of a modest and retiring disposition, deeply attached to his parents, who have brought him up in the best traditions of his house. Stories are often told of him—how, in his boyhood, he saved up his pocket-money to buy little presents for his mother. Like his father, he is frank of speech, and is noted in the army for his zeal and strict attention to duty. He is, in short, no unworthy scion of the most ancient and honourable House of Savoy from which he has sprung, and the traditions of which it will become his lot to support when, in due course, it will fall to his lot to ascend, in his turn, the throne of Italy.
COUNT GLEICHEN.
Born 1863.
Age 11.
From a Photo. by Maull & Fox.
APTAIN COUNT GLEICHEN, of the Grenadier Guards, extra Equerry to the Queen, is the eldest son of the late Prince Victor of Hohenlohe and of the youngest daughter of the late Admiral Sir George Seymour. Born on the 15th January, 1863, he was educated first at Cheam, afterwards at Charterhouse, and finally at Sandhurst. He was a Queen's page from 1874 to 1879, and our first portrait is extremely interesting as showing, what is rarely seen, the livery of a Royal page. In 1881 he obtained a commission in the Grenadier Guards. Three years later he served with the Guards Camel Regiment in the Gordon relief expedition, and took part in all the desert fighting. Returning to England in July, 1885, he served two years in the Intelligence Department, 1886-8, and spent another two years, 1890-1, at the Staff College. He is a keen soldier, and has devoted himself to the study of his profession. In addition to magazine articles and some official confidential works, he is the author of a clever, brightly written narrative of his experiences during the Nile Valley Campaign of 1884-5—"With the Camel Corps up the Nile." He is likewise the author of "The Armies of Europe."
FRED TERRY.
 From a Photograph. |
 From a Photo. by Robinson, Dublin. |
 From a Photo. by Watkins, Regent Street, W. |
 From a Photo. by London Stereo. Co. |
R. FRED TERRY is a North Londoner by birth, and was educated first at a school at Notting Hill and afterwards at Dr. Quine's, where Mr. Fred Leslie was one of his schoolfellows. He was then sent to reside with a family at Geneva, in order to acquire a knowledge of French, which he speaks with great fluency. At sixteen he made his first appearance on the stage in "Money," at the Haymarket, at that time under the management of the Bancrofts. After playing the lead in the first provincial tour of "In the Ranks," he appeared at the Lyceum as Sebastian in "Twelfth Night," in which his sister, Miss Ellen Terry, played the part of Viola. In 1889 he created the part of Olivier Deschamps, in "Esther Sandrez.". The most conspicuous of his subsequent successes have been, perhaps, Gilbert Vaughan in "Called Back" and John Christianson in "The Dancing Girl," at the Haymarket—the latter play being noteworthy as that in which Mr. Fred Terry's wife, Miss Julia Neilson, made so conspicuous a success in the part of Drusilla Ives. We may remind our readers that Mrs. Fred Terry's portraits appeared in our number for last August.
C. COQUELIN.
Born 1841.
 From a Photo. by Chetiennot, Paris. |
 From a Photo. by Thors, San Francisco. |
 From a Photo. by Etienne, Carjat & Cie. |
 From a Photo. by Hohlenberg, Copenhagen. |
ENÔIT CONSTANT COQUELIN, better known as Coquelin Aîné, the finest actor of comedy in France, or perhaps in the world, is the son of a baker at Boulogne, and was brought up to that trade; but, displaying a great aptitude for the stage, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire, of which, at eighteen, he became the most brilliant pupil. He made his début at the Théâtre Français in the following year. Since that time his name has been among the most eminent of living actors, and is almost as well known in England as in France.
SIR JOSEPH BARNBY.
Born 1838.
 From a Photograph. |
 From a Photograph. |
 From a Photo. by Lombardi & Co., 13, Pall Mall East. |
 From a Photo. by Marx, Frankfort. |
IR JOSEPH BARNBY, whose services to music have recently been rewarded by the honour of knighthood, was born at York, and was chorister in York Minster from eight years of age to fourteen. At sixteen he became a student at the Royal Academy of Music, where he continued to study for three years. At twenty-five he was appointed organist at St. Andrew's, Well Street, which post he held for eight years, when he was elected organist at St. Anne's, Soho, where he continued until 1886. During most of this time he was acting as conductor of oratorio concerts, and succeeded Gounod as conductor of the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society in 1872. In 1875 he was appointed Precentor and Director of Musical Instruction at Eton College. He was the conductor of most of the Royal and State functions, such as the receptions of the Shah in 1873 and 1889, and of the Czar in 1874. Sir Joseph Barnby's own compositions are very numerous, including the Oratorio of "Rebekah," produced in 1870, Cantata on Psalm. xcvii., at the Leeds Festival in 1883, and a very large number of services, anthems, and hymns.