George John Bennett (1800–1879) was for nearly 40 years a Shakespearian actor on the London stage, notably Covent Garden and Drury Lane.
George Bennett as Cassius in 'Julius Caesar', 1831
Sadler's Wells Theatre is a London performing arts venue, located in Rosebery Avenue, Islington. The present-day theatre is the sixth on the site. Sadler's Wells grew out of a late 17th-century pleasure garden and was opened as a theatre building in the 1680s.
Sadler's Wells, 2015
The first, wooden, Sadler's Wells "Musick-House"
1700 newspaper advertisement
William Hogarth's Evening engraving from the 1736 Four Times of the Day series depicts the gate to Sadler's Wells (left) along the New River canal, across from a tavern (right) bearing a sign picturing canal patron Hugh Myddelton