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OMMASO SALVINI, who belonged to family of actors, had gained renown as a child-actor before he was fourteen; and soon after, in Madame Ristori's company, he became recognised as the greatest of living tragedians. At nineteen he fought in the War of Independence, and was taken prisoner at the same time as his friend Garibaldi. Just before the age of our first portrait he appeared as Othello, with an effect which no one who has seen that wonderful impersonation will ever forget. Our second portrait, as Othello, is the only portrait of Salvini ever taken in character.