Life — March 17, 1898 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Richard Le Gallienne Portrait This page from *Life* magazine (page 209) features a profile portrait sketch labeled "RICHARD LE GALLIENNE." The drawing shows a man in side view wearing a bow tie, with distinctive wavy dark hair and refined facial features rendered in fine cross-hatching. Le Gallienne was a prominent late 19th/early 20th-century English writer, poet, and critic. The portrait appears to be a straightforward biographical illustration rather than political satire. *Life* regularly featured such celebrity portraits of notable literary and cultural figures of the era. Without additional context or satirical elements visible, this functions as a recognition piece celebrating a notable public intellectual of the period.