Talented Collection

Yehudi Menuhin aged 12
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM KBE (22 April 1916 12 March 1999), American-born violinist and conductor, who spent most of his performing career in Britain

Caricature of Cora Cardigan, flautist
Caricature of Cora Cardigan (Hannah Rosetta Dinah Moulton, 1860-1931), virtuoso flautist who worked mainly in theatres and music halls. She also played the violin. 1883

Signwriters at work
A wonderful photograph by Heinz Zinram showing a master signwriter at work, with his younger collegue (or apprentice) behind. A study in concentration, accuracy and exactitude in the craftsmans art

Frances Kelly Actress
Frances " Fanny" Kelly, immensely talented and popular Irish actress, appeared mostly at Drury Lane for 36 years with undiminished acclaim, renowned for comedy roles

Evolution / Art Apes Life
An extremely talented aspiring monkey artist sketches a less fortunate fellow monkey who is chained up whilst being sketched

LCC-LFB Brigade marching band at the Annual Review
The Fire Brigade Band performing at the 1929 Annual Review in Victoria Park, East London. Formed after the First World War

Friends of the Yorkshire miner Charles Martin, who worked at Dinnington Colliery, admire an exhibition of his paintings. See picture no. 13127079 for a photograph of Martin. Date: 1912

Jacqueline Du Pre, celebrated British cellist
Jacqueline Mary Du Pre (1945-1987), celebrated British cellist who, sadly, stopped performing at the age of 28 and died at the age of 42 as a result of multiple sclerosis. Date: circa 1970s

Davenie Watson, one of Billy Newsomes talented pupils, 1931 showing her fondness for a boudoir doll Date: 1931

Charles Martin, a working miner from Dinnington Colliery who was also a successful artist, having painted in oils 270 pictures, many of which he had sold

Charles Mathews playing six parts in Stories
Charles Mathews, comic actor, playing six parts in Stories, showing his distinctive appearance, lop-sided mouth and remarkable gift for mimicry. 1822

Talented Daughter
Unappreciated talent : Now then Julier do a done with that pehanner and give the mangle a turn ! Date: 1837 - 1838

MONKEY ARTIST
An extremely talented aspiring monkey artist sketches a less fortunate fellow monkey who is chained up whilst being sketched. Date: 19th century

Evolution - Art Apes Life
An extremely talented aspiring monkey artist sketches a less fortunate fellow monkey who is chained up whilst being sketched

Ethel Warwick painting
Ethel Warwick (1882-1951), Stage and film actress; wife of Edmund Waller, pictured at an easel painting, wearing a very artistic looking oriental cloak

Properzia De Rossi
PROPERZIA DE ROSSI Talented lady of Bologna who not only sculpted and painted but was also an accomplished musician Date: 1490 - 1530

Spanish General Castro Girona and Raisuli
Spanish General Castro Girona, popular with the Moroccan Moorish leaders - a talented africanista who had played a leading role in the capture of Xauen (Chaouen)

Balancing act at the Alhambra
Les Kiners-Moulins performing The Tribulations of a Soubrette, an extraordinary balancing act at the Alhambra in London in 1903. Date: 1903

The talented operatic dancer Ettie Landau, London, 1923 who has made a success with her Shadow and Shawl dances in Julian Wylies Brighter London at the Hippodrome Date: 1923

Portrait of the talented cabaret artiste Odette Myrtil, now in the Midnight Follies cabaret show at the Hotel Metropole, London, 1923 Date: 1923

Frances Kelly
Frances " Fanny" Kelly (1790-1882), immensely talented and popular Irish actress, appeared mostly at Drury Lane for 36 years with undiminished acclaim, renowned for comedy roles. Date: 1846

Helena Saxova, the talented dancer as she appears in Hassan at His Majestys Theatre, London, 1924 Date: 1924

Henri Et Antonine Ferry
ANTONINE ET HENRI FERRY- BIAGIOLI Talented brother-and-sister team who created and performed musical compositions of many sorts. Date: circa 1867

Thomas Dermody
THOMAS DERMODY - son of drunken Irish schoolmaster, talented writer whose wild lifestyle ( I am vicious because I like it ! ) led to an early grave in Lewisham. Date: 1775 - 1802

Thomas Dermody - 2
THOMAS DERMODY - son of drunken Irish schoolmaster, talented writer whose wild lifestyle ( I am vicious because I like it ! ) led to an early grave in Lewisham. Date: 1775 - 1802

George Tierney (1761 - 1830) Talented statesman, opposed Pitt but was distrusted by the whigs because of his lowly (i.e. mercantile) family background

A talented performer
A very little boy plays a grand piano from a raised piano stool. Two other small children look on in wonder. Date: 1875

Australian Artist
Australian film actress YVONNE EAST is also a talented artist, who specialised in head studies. In the whirl of stage and screen success, she does not forget art. Date: 1940s

First Marquess Thomond
MURROUGH O BRYEN, first marquess of THOMOND Irish statesman with a talented wife. Date: 1724 - 1808

Bartolome Mitre
BARTOLOME MITRE Argentine statesman, 1861 to 1868 : talented academic and soldier who united the country. Date: 1821 - 1906

LCC-LFB Brigade photographers at work
Two of the London Fire Brigades team of operational photographers. For well over 150 years a photographic record of the Brigade at fires

H. L. Oakley cutting a portrait in his studio
Silhouette artist, Harry Lawrence Oakley, known as H. L. Oakley pictured cutting the portrait of a young woman in a cloche hat and fur stole in a studio

Mr Adrian Ross at Home
Arthur Reed Ropes (1859 - 1933), better known by his pen name of Adrian Ross, pictured at home at Addison Mansions in London

William Wostenholme, blind organist
Mr William Wostenholme (1865 - 1931), organist and composer. Totally blind from birth, who was a talented musician and studied at the College for Blind Sons of Gentlemen at Worcester

Doggy Guitarist
Two amazed men watching a talented German Shepherd dog playing a guitar on a chair in one of the corners of the Dogs Club Cocktail Bar! Date: early 1930s

Performing seals at a circus, c. 1890
Talented performing seals of c. 1890 shown playing musical instruments, smoking pipes and even firing cannons! Date: c.1890

German Shepherd Smoking
The talented German Shepherd of Mrs. L. Goodwin of All Saints Avenue, Margate, drinks, smokes and wears clothes. Date: early 1930s

Max Darewski, musical prodigy
Maximillian Arnold (Max) Darewski (1894-1929), a musical prodigy who composed, conducted and played the piano. Seen here as a teenager, in coat and hat, carrying a music case

Prince of Wales hunting
Illustration by Cecil Aldin showing the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) clearing a hedge while out hunting. Aldin was a talented and prolific animals and sport artist

Augustus John
AUGUSTUS EDWIN JOHN artist, though not as talented as his sister Gwen

Musical Greeting
A group of talented children perform an orchestral carol concert

Adrienne Lecouvreur / Oval
ADRIENNE LECOUVREUR talented actress of the Comedie Francaise, who died in mysterious circumstances, perhaps poisoned by a rival

Edward Whymper
EDWARD WHYMPER Prolific alpinist and talented wood engraver. Illustrated his books on alpine exploration with wood engravings

Chef / George Dolenz
The talented chef George Dolenz, former manager of the Trocadero restaurant in Hollywood, with an array of his culinary delights

Camargo Dancing
Marianne de Camargo, Belgian ballerina, is not only a remarkably talented dancer but also a notable innovator in style, techniques, costume and coiffure

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