Eileen Watson
Imogen
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Museo de Victoria y Alberto
Londres, Reino Unido
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- Comprobado
- hace 7 días
- En este estado desde
- 25 sept 2026
- Fuente
- Los datos de colección del propio museo
About the painting
Ethel Carrington (1889-1962) is shown in a costume designed by Herbert Norris for Imogen in Shakespeare's Cymbeline,which she performed during the Shakespeare Summer Festival at the Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon in August 1922. The reviewer of The Birmingham Post, 3 August 1922, noted that, whether as Imogen the girl or disguised as the youth Fidele: 'Miss Ethel Carrington caught the ethereal radiance of this lovely character - the radiance was perhaps a little too pallid, for as Fidele she looked like some Sir Galahad from a window by Burne-Jones with earnest, wistful eyes shadowed by heavy red-gold hair.'
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Ethel Carrington, born Ethel McDowall, trained at Kate Rorke's School of Acting at the Guildhall and made her first London appearance as Vere Herbert in Henry Hamilton's Moths at the King's Theatre Hammersmith, on 14 October 1907. In 1911 she played Juliet with Frank Benson's Company at Stratford to Murray Carrington's Romeo. They were both members of Benson's Company for several years and during this time they married, but the marriage was later dissolved.
The artist Eileen Watson was also in Benson's Company at Stratford in 1922 and appeared in the role of a Boy in Sheridan's The Rivals. As a young actress she was apparently a fan of Ethel Carrington and painted this portrait, which she presented to her.
Museo de Victoria y Alberto
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- Número de inventario
- S.874-2011
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- Museo de Victoria y Alberto: the museum's own open data · obtenido hace 7 días
- Imagen: Museo de Victoria y Alberto — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
