The Irving Society
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Edward Onslow Ford, sculptor, was born 27 July 1852.1/ He first met Henry Irving in Jan 1880.He'd already been sculpting him as Hamlet from the stalls, and asked him to
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#OTD 3 July 18801/Over supper, Jules Bastien-Lepage, lost in admiration with Henry Irving’s face, begged to paint his portrait. Irving agreed but after two sittings, disliking it, changed his mind.Although
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