National Portrait Gallery

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Leisure and Society Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB was in general unwilling to have any picture made of her (which casts some doubt on the six images said to be of her in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery ). But...
Leisure and Society Elizabeth Burnet
Sir Godfrey Kneller painted EB 's portrait (now in the National Portrait Gallery ) in this same year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Leisure and Society Grace, Lady Mildmay
The National Portrait Gallery holds a painting of GLM as an imposing, unbending figure, her hand possessively placed on a stack of her wrirings.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Leisure and Society Iris Murdoch
The painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky did a portrait of IM in 1964, commissioned by St Anne's College . Years later Tom Phillips painted her for the National Portrait Gallery , posed in front of Titian
Leisure and Society Jane Collier
JC may have had her portrait painted. A mezzotint by J. Faber, Jr , now in the National Portrait Gallery , has been identified as her, but on very inadequate evidence.
Leisure and Society Mary Delany
As an old lady MD had her portrait painted by John Opie (now at the National Portrait Gallery ).
Leisure and Society Amelia B. Edwards
In Rome on her way to Egypt, ABE was sculpted in marble by Percival Ball . The sculpture is now in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Leisure and Society George Eliot
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1867 and now in the National Portrait Gallery , this was said by those who knew GE to be the best likeness of her.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
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Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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The portrait may...
Leisure and Society Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF was painted several times. The National Portrait Gallery has a portrait of her and her husband by Ford Madox Brown , commissioned by family friend and politician Sir Charles Dilke and painted in 1874...
Leisure and Society Hester Lynch Piozzi
The National Portrait Gallery lists twelve portraits of HLP , dated 1781 to 1811 (though some of these derive from each other and a couple are conversation-piece prints). Sir Joshua Reynolds painted her with her...
Leisure and Society Anne Finch
AF was painted in a miniature by Peter Cross (now in the National Portrait Gallery ) round about 1690. She left another, later miniature of her by Zincke in her will to Lady Hertford ...
Leisure and Society Lady Rachel Russell
LRR was often painted, both in youth and age. The original Dictionary of National Biography mentions many portraits; Schwoerer's biography reproduces five. A Kneller at Woburn is reproduced in most editions of her letters; another...
Literary responses Katherine Mansfield
After Mansfield's death, Woolf wrote in her diary: it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it.
Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, pp. 25-6.
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KM appears in episodes in more than one novel by her friend...
Occupation Sylvia Pankhurst
An oil portrait of Hardie by SP hangs in the National Portrait Gallery . Another, in chalk, is also extant. She produced at this time a self-portrait, also in the National Portrait Gallery, in which...
Reception Edith Sitwell
The National Portrait Gallery in London held an exhibition of works on ES and her twobrothers , which more than 30,000 people attended.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

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