THE FIRST ACTRESSES: NELL GWYN TO
SARAH SIDDONS
Eleanor ('Nell') Gwyn
by Simon Verelst, c.1680
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Mary (‘Moll’) Davis
By Sir Peter Lely, c. 1674
© The Trustees of the Weston Park Foundation, UK www.westonpark.com /The Bridgeman Art Library
Mary Robinson as Perdita
by John Hoppner, 1782
Chawton House Library, Hampshire
An Actress at Her Toilet or Miss Brazen just Breecht
After John Collett, 1779
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Henry Angelo as Mrs Cole in The Minor
by Samuel de Wilde, c.1792
© The Art Archive/The Garrick Club
Frances Abington as Prue in Love for Love
by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1771
©Yale Center for British Art. Paul Mellon Collection
Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse
Studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1784
©Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park
Elizabeth Inchbald
Attributed to John Hoppner, 1789-95
Private Collection
William Smith as Hamlet and Elizabeth Hopkins as Gertrude in
Hamlet
by James Roberts, 1777-8
© The Art Archive/ The Garrick Club
Frances Abington, Thomas King, John Palmer and William Smith in
The School for Scandal
by James Roberts, 1777
© The Art Archive/The Garrick Club
The Three Witches from Macbeth(Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess
Melbourne; Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; Anne Seymour
Damer)
by Daniel Gardner, 1775
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Dilettanti Theatricals: - or - a Peep at the Green Room
by James Gillray, 1803
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Lavinia Fenton
Possibly by George Knapton, c.1739
Private Collection
Giovanna Baccelli
by Thomas Gainsborough, exhibited 1782
© Tate, London 2011
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Sarah Siddons at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 20
October 2011 – 8 January 2012
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