Portraits
Having a reputation for beauty, Woffington appeared in portraits and paintings by several artists of the day, including Jacobus Lovelace in 1744, Peter van Bleeck in 1747, and John Lewis in 1753.
She was eulogised in a poetical sketch by the dramatist Henry Jones.
She has been portrayed as a character in the stage play 'A Laughing Matter' by April de Angelis.
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“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
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