Joseph Highmore

EC associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson , Samuel Richardson , Thomas Birch , Moses Browne , Richard Savage , William and John Duncombe

Either now or later she met the writer John Duncombe and painter Joseph Highmore , as well as the novelist Samuel Richardson .

In the year that publication began, she was painted by Joseph Highmore against a Jamaican background, and the painting was engraved. She kept Jamaican servants (probably slaves) at this date.

Joseph Highmore painted EC in about 1738, holding a book in her hand and about to be crowned with a laurel wreath. This picture seems to be related to Samuel Johnson 's poem To Eliza...

Joseph Highmore 's painting of her with book and laurel wreath, and John Fayram 's painting of her as a young Minerva in stylish armour with a copy of Plato , each of them associated...