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Paintings: G0226
Title
Fanny Elizabeth Fitzwilliam
Technique
Oil on canvas
Subject
Artist
Dimensions
Height: 91.5cm
Width: 71cm
height (frame): 103cm
width (frame): 70cm
Width: 71cm
height (frame): 103cm
width (frame): 70cm
Provenance
Bequeathed to the Garrick Club by the sitter's son, Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, 1859
Other number
RW/CKA 94
Exhibition history
1850 London, R.A. (500, "Portrait of Mrs Fitzwilliam, of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket")
Literature
Herman Dyson, "John Prescott Knight R.A., a catalogue" (1971), No. 139
Mrs Fitzwillam wears a dark green off-the-shoulder dress and a fur wrap. She holds a white mask in her right hand.
Wife of the actor Edward Fitzwilliam (1788-1852), Mrs Fitzwilliam acted with great success over more than 40 years at the Olympic and Surrey under Thomas John Dibdin, and at Drury Lane, the Haymarket and the Adelphi. Her son Edward Francis Fitzwilliam was musical director at the Lyceum under Madame Vestris and at the Haymarket in the 1840s.
Wife of the actor Edward Fitzwilliam (1788-1852), Mrs Fitzwilliam acted with great success over more than 40 years at the Olympic and Surrey under Thomas John Dibdin, and at Drury Lane, the Haymarket and the Adelphi. Her son Edward Francis Fitzwilliam was musical director at the Lyceum under Madame Vestris and at the Haymarket in the 1840s.
