John Philip Kemble
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John Philip Kemble was a British actor. He was born into a theatrical family as the eldest son of Roger Kemble, actor-manager of a touring troupe. His elder sister Sarah Siddons achieved fame with him
Portrait of John Philip Kemble by Sir William Beechey, 1799
John Philip Kemble as Hamlet, from an engraving of a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1802)
John Philip Kemble and Sarah Siddons, in "Macbeth", painted by Thomas Beach in 1786, now housed at the Garrick Club in London.
Kemble as Richard III, by William Hamilton, c. 1787
Priscilla Kemble
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Priscilla Kemble was an English actress. The English actor John Philip Kemble was her third and last husband.
John Philip Kemble
…1787 Kemble appeared in a variety of roles, his Mentevole in Robert Jephson's Julia producing an overwhelming impression. In December 1787 he married Priscilla Hopkins Brereton, the widow of an actor and herself an actress. Kemble's appointment as manager of the Drury Lane theatre in 1788 gave him full opportunity to dress the…
Bertie Greatheed, Priscilla Kemble, 1830, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
Richard James Lane, after Sir Thomas Lawrence, Priscilla Kemble, 1830