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William Thomas Lewis was an immensely popular actor who played at Covent Garden Theatre in London for 35 consecutive seasons from 1773 to 1808. Shee shows him dressed for his role in The Midnight Hour, which opened at Covent Garden Theatre on 22 May 1787.
The sitter’s son, Thomas Denison Lewis, bequeathed this portrait and the interest on a capital sum of £10,000 to the National Gallery in 1862. The Lewis Fund allowed the National Gallery to buy outright such paintings as Antonello da Messina’s Portrait of a Man, Avercamp’s A Scene on the Ice near a Town and Gainsborough’s Cornard Wood.
Title
Mr Lewis as the Marquis in 'The Midnight Hour'
Date
before 1792
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 239 x W 147 cm
Accession number
NG677
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Thomas Denison Lewis, 1849; entered the collection, 1863
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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Young Actress The Wilson -
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Edward Coplestone (1776–1849), Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of St Paul's Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford -
Ariadne Deserted by Theseus Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC) -
Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph Christ Church, University of Oxford -
Sir Thomas Andrew Strange (1756–1841) Christ Church, University of Oxford -
Anthony Carlisle (1768–1840) Hunterian Museum - 86 more