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Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger

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Actor. Thesiger was a contemporary of Augustus John at the Slade School of Art in the 1890s and continued to paint and exhibit. His acting career began as an amateur, but invalided out of the War in 1915, he progressed to the professional stage. G. B.Shaw adopted him as one of his favourite actors. He appeared in St Joan in 1924, and created the parts of the 'Microbe' in Too True to be Good, the British Foreign Secretary in Geneva, and Charles II in Good King Charles's Golden Days. He appeared in Gielgud's wartime Macbeth and continued to appear on stage until the last weeks of his life.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger

Date

1920

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 76.8 x W 60.6 cm

Accession number

5571

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1983

Work type

Painting

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