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Identifier: historicalportra00whea (find matches)
Title: Historical portraits; some notes on the painted portraits of celebrated characters of England, Scotland and Ireland
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917
Subjects: Portrait painters
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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loftiness. He looked, spake, and moved, like anold Castilian. He was starch, spruce, opiniated,but his superstructure of pride seemed bottomedupon a sense of worth. There was something init beyond the coxcomb. It was big and swelling,but you could not be sure it was hollow. Youmight wish to see it taken down, but you felt thatit was upon an elevation. Mr. Knight thinks Lambs praise is excessive,but he brings forward in the Dictionary ofNational Biography corroborative testimony tothe excellence of Bensleys Malvolio, which washis masterpiece. At the Garrick Club is a picture of a scene fromKing John by Mortimer, in which Bensley,Powell, and Smith are represented. Lamb makes some laudatory remarks respectingJohn Kemble, of whose acting he was a genuineadmirer. At the National Portrait Gallery thereare two good portraits of Kemble, one by GilbertStuart, which is here reproduced, and Lawrencesfull-length picture of the actor as Hamlet. At theGarrick Club there is Lawrences Kemble as Cato.
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JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE, BY GILBERT STUART. ACTORS AND ACTRESSES 249 The National Gallery contains the beautifulportrait of Mrs. Siddons, by Gainsborough, whichis here reproduced, and also one by Lawrence.She is represented as Lady Macbeth in a pictureby Harlow at the Garrick Club. At the National Portrait Gallery are Sir WilliamBeecheys portrait, and Lawrences full-lengthfigure. At the Dulwich Gallery is Reynoldss finepicture of Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse,similar to the Duke of Westminsters picture, andthere has been some doubt as to which of thesetwo is the original. Every great painter wasanxious to paint the greatest of English actresses. G. H. Harlows Trial Scene of Queen Katha-rine, from Henry VIII., containing portraits ofthe members of the Kemble family. This picturewas lent to the Guelph Exhibition by Mrs. Mor-rison of Basildon Park, Berks. It was engravedby George Clint, who, finding the publication tobe a success, was induced to paint a similar pictureof a scene from Massin

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