Regency Portraits Catalogue
Elizabeth Bannister (née Harpur) (1757-1849), Singer
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
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Lillian Hall, Catalogue of Dramatic portraits in ... Harvard College Library lists 6 engraved portraits, 4 of them in character parts.
1778
Line engraving, artist unknown published by J. Bew, 1 July 1778, in her stage debut as 'Rosetta' in Bickerstaffe's Love in a Village, singing 'Gentle Youth, ah! tell me why'.
1780
Coloured mezzotint by Laurie after a watercolour drawing by R. Dighton, pub. by Richardson, 1 March 1780, high jewelled coiffure and ermine boa perhaps as 'Clara' in The Duenna.
1781
Line engraving by Thornthwaite after a drawing by J. Roberts published in Bell's British Theatre 29 March 1781, as Patty in Bickerstaffe's Maid of the Mill singing 'O! may each accomplish'd fair one'.
1782
Line engraving by J. Collyer after a drawing by D. Dodd published in New English Theatre (1782) with George Mattocks in Maid of the Mill.
1793
Miniature probably by Cosway, drawn and engraved by John Condé and published in Thespian Magazine, 1 August 1793.
1795-1800
Black and red chalk drawing by Lawrence in the Laing Galleries, Toronto, reproduced in colour in Gower Lawrence, 1900, p 164 (Kenneth Garlick, ‘Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence’ in Walpole Society Journal, XXXIX, 1964, p 164).
1799
Pastel by John Russell (NPG 1770).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
1778
Line engraving, artist unknown published by J. Bew, 1 July 1778, in her stage debut as 'Rosetta' in Bickerstaffe's Love in a Village, singing 'Gentle Youth, ah! tell me why'.
1780
Coloured mezzotint by Laurie after a watercolour drawing by R. Dighton, pub. by Richardson, 1 March 1780, high jewelled coiffure and ermine boa perhaps as 'Clara' in The Duenna.
1781
Line engraving by Thornthwaite after a drawing by J. Roberts published in Bell's British Theatre 29 March 1781, as Patty in Bickerstaffe's Maid of the Mill singing 'O! may each accomplish'd fair one'.
1782
Line engraving by J. Collyer after a drawing by D. Dodd published in New English Theatre (1782) with George Mattocks in Maid of the Mill.
1793
Miniature probably by Cosway, drawn and engraved by John Condé and published in Thespian Magazine, 1 August 1793.
1795-1800
Black and red chalk drawing by Lawrence in the Laing Galleries, Toronto, reproduced in colour in Gower Lawrence, 1900, p 164 (Kenneth Garlick, ‘Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence’ in Walpole Society Journal, XXXIX, 1964, p 164).
1799
Pastel by John Russell (NPG 1770).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.