Gallery of Portraits
Treading the boards on the Georgian stage is a website that gathers portraits of 18th Century female performers from the UK.
Mrs Frances Abington
Mrs Abington as The Widow Belmour in
The Way to Keep Him
by Arthur Murphy
1765
Johan Zoffany
Mrs ‘Kitty’ Clive
Mrs ‘Kitty’ Clive as
Mrs Riot the Fine Lady: in ‘Lethe or Aesop in the Shades’.
c1750
Peter Van Bleek
Garrick Club collection
Mrs Abington
Mrs Abington as the Comic Muse c1764-68
Sir Joshua Reynolds
National Trust
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, England
