Dorothea Jordan by John Hoppner, 1791. National Portrait Gallery, London. This portrait shows Mrs. Jordan in one of her most popular ‘breeches’ roles in Cibber’s She Would and She Would Not, where she dresses as a young soldier to follow her lover to...
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Mary Ethel Young Hunter 1872—1947 The artist was born in Napier, New Zealand, the daughter and second child of Edward (born in Wales, died in NZ 1882) and Edith Towgood. Her widowed mother brought Mary and her three sisters to live in England, where Mary...
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