Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — RICHARD MANSFIELD DEAD. [ARTICLE]

RICHARD MANSFIELD DEAD.

Eminent Actor Expire* at Hl* Summer Home In Coanectlent. Richard Mansfield, the beat knownT actor on the American stage, died fcriday at his summer residence, Seven Oaks, near New London, Conn. Death was directly due to disease of the liver, aggravated by complications. Richard Mansfield, the most daring, able, and successful player of his time, was born in Heligoland, Germany, in 1857, and during the course of his career has been artist, singer, poet, playwright and player. His mother was a singer of unusual ability. He was not always successful at everything he did, but on the stage he was remarkably successful, in an extensive and wide range of parts extending from Koko in the comic opera of “The Mikado” to Richard, Carlos, Shylock, Alceste, and Peer Gynt. He brought more glory to the Englishspeaking stage than any ten of his contemporaries and his history is a record of a succession of remarkable and courageous attempts to achieve great things. Artistically and materially he succeeded beyond all others of his time. Mr. Mansfield several years ago married Beatrice Cameron, who was then his leading woman. He leaves one child, a boy not yet in his teeas. His home was on Riverside drive in New York, and there he passed much of his time when not playing.

Two portraits purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, as the work of Gilbert Stuart have been attacked aa unauthentic bjr Cbarlea Henry Hart of Philadelphia, who la an acknowledged authority on American historical portraiture.