Painted by Sir Thos Lawrence, engraved by C. Turner
Mess.rs Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Co. Booksellers. Paternoster Row, London. Jan. 1st 1825.
Fine mezzotint, proof before title. 230 x 145mm (9 x 5¾"), with very large margins. Uncut.
A half portrait of John Philip Kemble (1757-1823). Born into a family of actors, he joined a York theatre company at age nineteen, though his mother had first urged him to become a catholic priest. He had a relatively successful career and became manager of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 1803. He retired in 1817.
W.287 i of ii
[Ref: 53854]  £120.00