She debuted at the Royal Opera House in London as Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni[2] after training in Paris and Milan.

In 1879 her voice gave way and she was obliged to give up her career at Covent Garden.

However, she joined Edwin Booth as an actress in the United States and did not return to England until the 1890s.

The Irving Society offer no rationale as to why he should have been carrying her photo as there is no evidence that they did (or did not) know each other.

[4] There are photos of her in the National Portrait Gallery, London, appearing in Lucretia Borgia in the 1890s.