'Sixth Great Conflagration in San Francisco', Californa Size:S: 45 x 30cm He is best remembered for

He is best remembered for his command of the suppression of the Jewish revolt in 70 which saw the sack of the city of Jerusalem and the destruction of its Temple

although he is best remembered for playing the circus strongman Eugen Sandow in the Oscar-winning The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

to which a coach has been attached

A photograph from The Sphere

Sir John Whittaker Ellis

'Sixth Great Conflagration in San Francisco', Californa Size:S: 45 x 30cm He is best remembered for'Sixth Great Conflagration in San Francisco', Californa, 1851 (1937). From Old California, In Pictures and Story, by Stewart Edward White and published by Doubleday, Doran and Company (New York, 1937).