George Eliot
(1819-1880), NovelistGeorge Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
Sitter associated with 12 portraits
One of the greatest Victorian novelists and recognised as such in her lifetime. Known by her pen name, Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans. She had strong evangelical sympathies and translated Strauss's Life of Jesus, 1846, and other works. Her great novels include The Mill on the Floss, 1860, Romola, 1862-3, Middlemarch, 1871-2, and Daniel Deronda, 1874-6. Evans challenged Victorian social conventions by living for many years with the writer and critic George Henry Lewes, who was separated but not divorced from his wife, until his death in 1878. In 1880 she married the banker, J. W. Cross.
by Unknown artist
silhouette
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by Caroline Bray
watercolour, 1842
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replica by François D'Albert Durade
oil on canvas, 1850-1886, based on a work of 1850
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by Lowes Cato Dickinson
ink, 1872
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by Laura Theresa (née Epps), Lady Alma-Tadema
pencil, circa 1877
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by Laura Theresa (née Epps), Lady Alma-Tadema
pencil, 1877
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Unknown woman, formerly known as George Eliot
by Sir Frederic William Burton
pencil
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by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, after Mayall
albumen print, circa 1881 (1858)
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by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, after Mayall
albumen cabinet card, circa 1881 (1858)
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by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, after Mayall
sepia postcard print, copied 1870s (1858)
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by Paul Adolphe Rajon, after Sir Frederic William Burton
etching, (1865)
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