The Taming of the Shrew: Ada Rehan (1859-1916) as Katherina at the Gaiety Theatre 1888.

Rehan was an actress very much in the Shavian style. She excelled at classic comedy, in such Shakespearean roles as Mrs. Ford, Katherina, Helena, Rosalind, Viola and Beatrice. William Winter wrote, “Her physical beauty was of the kind that appears in portraits of women by Romney and Gainsborough—ample, opulent, and bewitching—and it was enriched by the enchantment of superb animal spirits." HMR Courtesy of the Hampden-Booth Library, New York.