Sir Robert Ker Porter

There seems to be some suggestion of an engagement to or at least a romantic interest in Jane's and Anna Maria's brother Robert Ker Porter .

Of her brothers William , John, and Robert , she had the closest adult relationship with Robert, who was born the year after her and who became a painter, soldier, and diplomat, working in Russia...

One of her brothers, later Sir Robert Ker Porter , was a historical painter, traveller, diplomat, and travel writer.

Her first piece of this kind, for Friendship's Offering, 1826, was titled A Tale of Ispahan and designed to supplement an engraving of that town from a sketch by her brother Sir Robert Ker Porter

JP seems not to have begun writing seriously as early as her younger sister, who probably reached print before her. She helped during the 1790s to write descriptive pamphlets to accompany her brother's earliest military...

Again she worked in conjunction with her brother Robert , designing her work to go with his painting of Suwarrow defeating the French.

The first volume had a frontispiece designed by AMP 's brother R. K. Porter . The epigraph came from the introduction to Gay 's Fables (1727) : From objects most minute and mean, / A...

Editions appeared at Philadelphia in 1799 and New York in 1804 and 1814. In London Longman and Newbery put out an edition in 1800; in a later edition than this appeared a frontispiece engraved from...

JP and her family were moved from England to Scotland (Durham to Edinburgh) the year after her father's death. Before 1794, they moved back again to England, to 16 Great Newport Street, Leicester...

AMP and her family moved to London, near Leicester Square, because of their mother's ambition for their painter-brother, Robert .

JP opens her story in early 1792, on the eve of Poland's unsuccessful bid for independence in the Kościuszko Uprising, and continues it in London, which was beginning to function as a haven...

JP 's unpublished works at the Folger Library include poems, letters, and personal diaries. Other papers of hers are in the Huntington Library . Her brother 's manuscripts, at the University of Kansas and Caracas...

As the full title indicates, this was a specific attempt to educate the public, especially the young, on the cruelty to animals inherent in field sports. An interesting sidelight on its composition is that...

JP travelled to St Petersburg with her diplomat brother, Robert , who had lived there for years, married a Russian princess, and was now on a visit to his daughter.