David Garrick
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David Garrick was an English actor who wrote, produced and influenced nearly all aspects of 18th century European theatrical practice, and was a pupil and friend of Samuel Johnson. He appeared in seve
Portrait of David Garrick by Thomas Gainsborough, 1770
Have mercy, Jesu! Soft! I did but dream. O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! – Shakespeare's Richard III Act V, Sc. 3. David Garrick in 1745 as Richard III just before the battle of Bosworth Field, his sleep having been haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered, wakes to the realisation that he is alone in the world and death is imminent. Painting by the English painter William Hogarth (which is on display at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool).
Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy, 1760–61 at Waddesdon Manor
Wager between Mr Bedford and Mr Williams (for two gallons of claret) that Mr Garrick did not act upon the stage before 1732, countersigned by David Garrick that he first acted at Goodman’s Fields Theatre in the year 1741; image from University of Bristol Theatre Collection.
Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare is a small garden folly erected in 1756 on the north bank of the River Thames at Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Grade I listed, it was built by
David Garrick and his Wife by his Temple to Shakespeare at Hampton, Johan Zoffany, c. 1762
Garrick's Temple in its riverside setting
Adrien Carpentiers's portrait of the sculptor Louis-François Roubiliac depicts him with a model of the statue of Shakespeare for Garrick's temple.
Interior of Garrick's Temple with a replica of Roubiliac's statue of Shakespeare, for which Garrick himself was the model