Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Elizabeth Griffith (1727-1793), Playwright and novelist
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
See also J. M. S. Tompkins, The Polite Marriage, 1938, p 195.
1778
Painting by Richard Samuel, Portraits in the characters of the Muses, see NPG 4905.
1775-80
Drawing by the Rev J. Thomas, engraved MacKenzie 1801, bust-length oval with a head scarf (Lady’s Monthly Mag.). She appears a little younger than in the anon. engraving of 1780.
1780
Anon. engraving, pub. Fielding & Walker 1780, bust-length oval within an elaborate surround (masks, a lute, and books titled Letters of Henry and Frances [1757]/Del[icate] Distress [1769-70]/Lady Barton [1771]/Morality and Shakespeares Drama [1775]).
Tompkins also mentions now untraced portraits of her by ‘Pyne’ [presumably R. E. Pine] at Hendersyde Hall (light-brown hair and a long nose) and a youthful pencil drawing by Giles Hussey made in Ireland.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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
Painting by Richard Samuel, Portraits in the characters of the Muses, see NPG 4905.
1775-80
Drawing by the Rev J. Thomas, engraved MacKenzie 1801, bust-length oval with a head scarf (Lady’s Monthly Mag.). She appears a little younger than in the anon. engraving of 1780.
1780
Anon. engraving, pub. Fielding & Walker 1780, bust-length oval within an elaborate surround (masks, a lute, and books titled Letters of Henry and Frances [1757]/Del[icate] Distress [1769-70]/Lady Barton [1771]/Morality and Shakespeares Drama [1775]).
Tompkins also mentions now untraced portraits of her by ‘Pyne’ [presumably R. E. Pine] at Hendersyde Hall (light-brown hair and a long nose) and a youthful pencil drawing by Giles Hussey made in Ireland.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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.