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G0047
Paintings: G0047
Title
Elizabeth Barry
Technique
Oil on panel
Subject
Artist
Kneller, Godfrey Bt (Sir) [ Copy after ]
Dimensions
Height: 21.9cm
Width: 16.8cm
Width: 16.8cm
Other materials
Oval
Provenance
Charles Mathews
Other number
Mathews 138 (artist unknown)
RW 284 (artist unknown)
CKA 284
RW 284 (artist unknown)
CKA 284
Exhibition history
1833 London, Queen's Bazaar, Oxford Street, "Mr Mathews's Gallery of Theatrical Portraits" (138)
Related works
The Strawberry Hill portrait, described as head and shoulder in profile 30"x25", was sold at Sotheby's on 3 May 1972 (128), seller and buyer unknown
Engraving history
Charles Knight for Harding's "Biographical Mirror" pub. E. & S. Harding 17 December 1792, stipple 12.9x10.2, inscr: "From an original picture by Sr Godfrey Kneller / in the Collection of the Rt. Hon the Earl of Orford at Strawberry Hill" [see PM0104]
Anon. Mezzotint 10.8x8.2
Anon., stipple 9.8x7.6
The sitter wears a brown and blue striped dress caught up on left shoulder with a pale blue knot.
G0047 may have been copied from Charles Knight's engraving, after the Kneller original.
Recognised as the first great English actress, Elizabeth Barry made her debut on the London stage as Draxilla in Oxway’s “Alcibiade” at Covent Garden in late September 1675. She retired after the season 1709-10. Her magnetic intensity was at best in such roles as Roxalana in “The Rival Queens”, Calista in “The Fair Penitent”, and Lady Macbeth.
G0047 may have been copied from Charles Knight's engraving, after the Kneller original.
Recognised as the first great English actress, Elizabeth Barry made her debut on the London stage as Draxilla in Oxway’s “Alcibiade” at Covent Garden in late September 1675. She retired after the season 1709-10. Her magnetic intensity was at best in such roles as Roxalana in “The Rival Queens”, Calista in “The Fair Penitent”, and Lady Macbeth.
