Susannah Maria Cibber (née Arne)
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Susannah Maria Cibber (née Arne)
by Unknown artist
ivory medallion, circa 1729
1 3/8 in. x 1 1/8 in. (35 mm x 28 mm) oval
Purchased, 1923
Primary Collection
NPG 1984
Sitterback to top
- Susannah Maria Cibber (née Arne) (1714-1766), Actress and singer. Sitter in 6 portraits.
This portraitback to top
The only recorded ivory of the actress, showing her as Susannah Maria Arne at the age of 15 in about 1729, some years before her marriage to Theophilus Cibber. More detailed information from an out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Kerslake, John, Early Georgian Portraits, 1977, p. 55
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 125
Events of 1729back to top
Current affairs
Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the state of Britain's gaols.Opening of the first Putney Bridge; the only fixed crossing of the River Thames between London Bridge and Kingston Bridge at the time.
Tornado destroys buildings in Sussex and Kent
Art and science
Chiswick House in London, a pioneering example of English Palladian revival architecture, is designed by its owner Richard Boyle with the help of the architect William Kent.Jonathan Swift publishes A Modest Proposal; a satirical attack on attitudes towards the poor and Irish policy more generally.
International
Benjamin Franklin prints, publishes and largely writes the weekly Pennsylvania Gazette, which soon becomes the most successful newspaper in the colonies.Treaty of Seville seals peace between Britain and Spain.
King Frederick IV of Denmark charters the Danish East India Company.
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