Anna Williams
David Garrick, portrait by Angelica Kauffman
David Garrick, portrait by Robert Edge Pine
David Garrick, portrait by Thomas Gainsborough
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Edward Gibbon, portrait by Henry Walton
Edward Gibbon, portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Elizabeth Carter
portrait of Frances Burney (aka Fanny Burney)
portrait of Frances Burney (aka Fanny Burney)
Hester Thrale and her daughter Queeney
Mrs. Hester (Lynch) Thrale
James Boswell
James Macpherson, portrait by George Romney
Samuel Johnson, portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, circa 1770
Johnson during his tour of the Hebrides
Johnson, Boswell, and Flora Macdonald in Scotland
literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds’s; Samuel Johnson seated, second from left
Michael Johnson (Samuel Johnson’s father)
Elizabeth (Porter Jervis) Johnson, Samuel Johnson’s wife
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; portait by William Hoare
Robert Dodsley; portait by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Samuel Johnson; portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds
William Strahan
I’ve always wondered how people could survive under those mountains of clothing. Must have taken a long time to dress each morning.