Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… Trustees of the British Museum, 1851,0901.241. Image ‘Portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, aged 25, bust to right, looking at the viewer, hair curled at the ears and tied in a queue, oval frame with bow on top, on pedestal with laurel’, … A favourite in society, he was ‘clubbable’, to use the term coined by Samuel Johnson and he was also known for drinking heavily and gambling. 1 He was a great socializer, using conversation as a social art and political tool and was a … at the Marquis of Tavistock’s, at Robins’s the auctioneer’s, at Sir Humphrey Davy’s, at Sam Rogers’s, in short, in most kinds of company, and always found him very convivial and delightful.’ 3 3 . Thomas Moore, Letters and Journals of Lord …
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