Hoppner

Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) belongs to what was once fondly called the "golden age" of British portrait painting – the age of Gainsborough, Northcote, Hoppner, Beechey and Reynolds.

Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review Richard Holmes 2010

Much changed for Lawrence after 1810, and the death of his arch-rival, John Hoppner.

Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review Richard Holmes 2010

Jane Elizabeth Harley, Countess of Oxford, pictured here by Hoppner, provided her husband five children who were mostly half-siblings, and resentfully acknowledged by the scandalous lady's husband.

Archive 2009-01-01 Ann Lethbridge 2009

“The Grand Venetian Carnivale that Hoppner set up when you wintered over with Parry,” continued Fitzjames.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

“So we never got close to the Passage — or even to sighting new land, really — and lost a ship, and Hoppner was court-martialed and Parry considered that his court-martial as well since Hoppner was under his command the whole time.”

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

“Some of them may have belonged to Parry and Hoppner — may have been the same costumes you chose from while frozen in Baffin Bay twenty-four years ago — but there are over a hundred tattered rags in there.”

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

“And it worked out all right when you had the first Venetian Carnivale under Hoppner and Parry in '24.”

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Then Hoppner tried raising her to get at her keel — just as Sir John wanted to do with your Erebus — but the blizzard put an end to that idea and both ships were in danger of being forced onto the lee shore of the headland.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

It was Hoppner who planned this masque he called the Grand Venetian Carnivale, set for the first day in November, right when morale dips as the sun disappears for months.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

I've been looking for a quotation from one contemporary society painter, possibly Hoppner, who said something to the effect that Pitt was the least artistically inspiring subject he'd ever had.

Unfinished 2004