Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet was a British linguist, translator, poet and landowner, based in Derbyshire, England. He was part of the intellectual and literary circle of Lichfield, which included A
Engraving by John Raphael Smith after a Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait, 1797
Portrait of Sir Brooke Boothby by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1781
Henry Fuseli, The Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby, 1792
The Boothby Monument, described as being so lifelike that the child could be sleeping, is inscribed with an epitaph to Penelope's honour: "She was in form and intellect most exquisite. The unfortunate Parents ventured their all on this frail Bark. And the wreck was total"
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Penelope Boothby was a girl who has become one of the most famous child characters in British art. Her image inspired the paintings by Joshua Reynolds, Henry Fuseli, John Everett Millais, a sculpture
Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet
…Rousseau, indicating Boothby's admiration and promotion of the writer and his work generally. Several portraits were also made of Boothby's daughter, Penelope—by Henry Fuseli and Joshua Reynolds and in sculpture by Thomas Banks. She died young and was the subject of a book of poetry by her grieving father…
Penelope Boothby in 1788 in a painting by Joshua Reynolds
Tomb of Penelope Boothby by Thomas Banks (1793) in St Oswald's Church, Ashbourne