George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans)) (1819-1880), Novelist
Sitter associated with 12 portraits
Novelist; born Mary Ann Evans; of strong evangelical sympathies; translated Strauss's Life of Jesus, 1846, and other works; lived with G.H. Lewes from 1854; her great novels include The Mill on the Floss, 1860, Romola, 1862-3, Middlemarch, 1871-2, and Daniel Deronda, 1874-6; married a much younger American, J.W. Cross, 1880.
George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
by Unknown artist
silhouette
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
by Caroline Bray
watercolour, 1842
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
replica by François D'Albert Durade
oil on canvas, (1849)
On display in Room 24 at the National Portrait Gallery
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Unknown woman, formerly known as George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
by Sir Frederic William Burton
pencil
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
by Sir Frederic William Burton
chalk, 1865
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
by Lowes Cato Dickinson
ink, 1872
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
by Laura Theresa (née Epps), Lady Alma-Tadema
pencil, circa 1877
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
by Laura Theresa (née Epps), Lady Alma-Tadema
pencil, 1877
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen print
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, after Mayall
sepia postcard print, 1858 (copied 1870s)
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen cabinet card, 1870s-1900s
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
by Paul Adolphe Rajon, after Sir Frederic William Burton
etching, (1865)
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