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John Lawrence Toole as Fanfaronde in 'Belphegor the Mountebank' NPG P301(160)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Herbert Watkins

Beginning his acting career at the age of twenty-two, for nearly forty years he sustained a position at or near the summit of his adopted profession. He was considered to be a master of the twin staples of Victorian entertainment, farce and domestic melodrama, and it was this dual ability that helped him remain dominant for so long. In 1879 he became the resident manager of the Folly Theatre. It was relaunched as Toole's Theatre, thus making him the first actor to have a West... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.