Regency Portraits Catalogue
Jane Porter (1776-1850), Novelist; sister of Anna Maria Porter
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Novelist, author of Thaddeus of Warsaw, 1803, The Scottish Chiefs, 1810 and others. Sister of Sir Robert Ker Porter and Anna Maria.
Miss Mitford admired her 'brilliant colouring' but in 1835 Lady Morgan pronounced her 'tall lank lean and lackadaisical a regular Melpomene' (Memoirs, II, p 396).
Charles MacFarlane writing many years after their deaths said 'I liked these two sisters exceedingly, although they were authoresses … They were quiet, perfectly unaffected, rather retiring, very ladylike elderly ladies, neat and plain in their attire, and taking no pains to conceal the snow which Time was throwing on their hair' (Reminiscences of a Literary Life, 1917, p 113).
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.
Miss Mitford admired her 'brilliant colouring' but in 1835 Lady Morgan pronounced her 'tall lank lean and lackadaisical a regular Melpomene' (Memoirs, II, p 396).
Charles MacFarlane writing many years after their deaths said 'I liked these two sisters exceedingly, although they were authoresses … They were quiet, perfectly unaffected, rather retiring, very ladylike elderly ladies, neat and plain in their attire, and taking no pains to conceal the snow which Time was throwing on their hair' (Reminiscences of a Literary Life, 1917, p 113).
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.