Elizabeth Ann Linley
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Elizabeth Ann Sheridan was an English singer who was known to have possessed great beauty. She was the subject of several paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, who was a family friend, Joshua Reynolds and Richard Samuel. An adept poet and writer, she became involved with the Blue Stockings Society and participated in Whig politics.
Mrs Richard Brinsley Sheridan, aged 31 (by Thomas Gainsborough, National Gallery of Art)
"The Linley Sisters", by Thomas Gainsborough (Dulwich Picture Gallery) – Elizabeth (left, standing, aged 17) with her sister Mary
Thomas Gainsborough's 1768 painting of Elizabeth with her brother Thomas; the original title prior to 1817 was A Beggar Boy and Girl.
Jerry Barrett's 1860 portrayal of Sheridan helping Elizabeth escape from her father's house.
Richard Samuel
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Richard Samuel was an English portrait painter who won several prestigious medals in the 1770s in London. He is known for a small number of paintings including what came to be known as The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain of 1778 in which he painted the nine leading blue stocking women of his time.
Robert Pollard by Richard Samuel, 1784. National Portrait Gallery, London.
The 1777 print showing Britannia rather than Apollo.