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Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Burnet | Sir Godfrey Kneller
painted EB
's portrait (now in the National Portrait Gallery
) in this same year. |
Leisure and Society | P. D. James | The Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery
commissioned a painting of PDJ
, and she was asked to choose the artist. She enjoyed the thirteen sittings it took for the young painter of her choice,... |
Leisure and Society | Lady Rachel Russell | |
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 | 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 | Mary Delany | |
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, 1996. 275 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968. 378 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 | 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 | Cicely Hamilton | A striking photographic portrait of CH
by Lena Connell
, taken in 1912, is now in the National Portrait Gallery
. Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing, 2007. 78 |
Leisure and Society | Elinor James | EJ
had her portrait painted by an unknown artist (the canvas now resides at the National Portrait Gallery
), wearing a red silk dress and displaying several of her publications including a splendidly bound copy... |
Leisure and Society | Charlotte Lennox | This portrait was engraved in the 1770s by Henry Richard Cook
, and by Francesco Bartolozzi
for S. and E. Harding
's abortive 1793 edition of her Shakespear Illustrated. The painting itself does not... |
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. qtd. in Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol. 35 , No. 7, 12 Apr. 2013, pp. 25-6. 25 |
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... |
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