John Hoppner
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John Hoppner was an English painter, very largely of portraits. He was much influenced by Joshua Reynolds, and was regarded as a fine colourist. He had a successful career painting the high society of
Self-portrait, c. 1780
The Frankland Sisters, 1795
Miss Mary Linwood, about 1800, John Hoppner V&A Museum no. 1439-1874
Sleeping Nymph and Cupid, 1806, now at Petworth House. The model for the nymph was said at the time to be Georgiana Leicester, Baroness de Tabley.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westm
John Hoppner
…draughtsman/artist youngest unknown Hoppner Death In his later years Hoppner suffered from a chronic disease of the liver. He died on 23 January 1810. Gallery Richard Brinsley Sheridan, c.1788 Joseph Haydn, c.1791, Royal Collection Dorothea Jordan as Hippolyta, 1791 George, Prince of Wales, 1792, Wallace Collection Portrait of Arthur…
Portrait by John Hoppner, c. 1788–1792
Portrait of a Gentleman, traditionally identified as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by John Hoppner
Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, aged 31, by Gainsborough (National Gallery of Art)
In Uncorking Old Sherry (1805), James Gillray caricatured Sheridan as a bottle of sherry, uncorked by Pitt and bursting out with puns, invective, and fibs.