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
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.
Thomas Linley the younger
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Thomas Linley the younger, also known as Thomas Linley, Junior or Tom Linley, was the eldest son of the composer Thomas Linley and his wife Mary Johnson. He was one of the most precocious composers an
Portrait of Thomas Linley the Younger by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1772
Elizabeth (14 y. old) with Thomas (12) by Gainsborough, c. 1768
Mozart, at the keyboard, and Tom Linley, playing the violin, in Florence (c. 1770)
View of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, ca.1776