Portrait of Elise DE VÈRE
Photography
Inventory number
2018.6.1.22.PH.PC.C1905.DEDescription
Postcard photo of Elise de Vère, who was known as a stage actress and singer, wearing a pillbox-like hat and a novelty bodice decorated with musical notes.Elise de Vère was born in Brussels into a family of stage performers. Her father Herbert Gardiner Shakespeare Williams, or Charles de Vere, made equipment for illusionists and her mother performed under the name "Okita". The family moved around a lot, including to London in 1878 and to Brussels in 1892, then Paris. She first played under the name, "Connie de Vère" and was active in Paris around 1900, where she won second place to Jeanne Dortzal in a beauty pageant at the Olympic Theater. She performed many times in Berlin and in Vienna and, in 1903 and 1904, performed in the Broadway play "Red Feather" by Florenz Ziegfeld, as "Mademoiselle Fifine" in New York. In the US, her name was written as "Elise de Vere".
Materials
CardboardAnalog photography
Origin
circa 1905 GermanyDimensions
Length : 8.9 cmHeight : 13.9 cm