Hannah More

Sitterback to top

• Hannah More (1745-1833), Religious writer. Sitter in 11 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Augustin Edouart (1789-1861), Artist. Artist associated with 28 portraits.

This portraitback to top

Hannah More's precocious intelligence convinced her family to educate her as best they could; she later took lessons from the masters at a boarding school which one of her sisters opened in Bristol. On a visit to London in the early 1780s she was befriended by David Garrick and his wife and was much admired by London literary society. She had two plays produced in the capital before turning to moral and religious writing and her most popular work in this vein was Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1809). This silhouette shows More sitting at a table holding some papers with her inkstand and quill before her.

Linked publicationsback to top

• Foister, Susan, Cardinal Newman 1801-90, 1990 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 2 March - 20 May 1990), p. 20
• Ingamells, John, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, 2004, p. 347
• Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 440
• Uglow, Jenny, Character Sketches: Dr Johnson, His Club and Other Friends, 1998, p. 59

Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top

• Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings (13 March 2008 - 15 June 2008)
• Silhouettes (11 September 2004 - 26 June 2005)

Subject/Themeback to top

• Silhouettes