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Sir Arthur Wing Pinero was a leading playwright of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Born into an English family descended from Portuguese Jews, Pinero abandoned legal studies at nineteen to become an actor. His first play, £200 a Year, was produced in 1877. His best farces, such as The Magistrate (1885), The Schoolmistress (1886) and Dandy Dick (1887), were written for the Royal Court Theatre in London. It was his play The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893) that established Pinero as an important playwright. It was serious and yet sentimental, and was the first of several plays he wrote that depicted women battling with the strictures of Victorian society.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

Date

exhibited 1891

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 125.1 x W 100.3 cm

Accession number

2761

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, 1935

Work type

Painting

National Portrait Gallery, London

St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England

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Artist or maker

Joseph Mordecai

1851–1940

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