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National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, limited · leaf 174

An illustration from The National portrait gallery, 1901, leaf 174
arried to Francis, fourteenth Earl of Shrewsbury. Notorious forher beauty and gallantries. Her husband having challenged GeorgeYilliers, second Duke of Buckingham, to a duel on her account, sheis said to have held her lovers horse, attired like a page, and, herhusband having fallen in the duel, to… … No. 280. 29} in. by 24 in. i6o THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALIERY. ANTHONY LEIGH. Died 1002. Painted in 1689 by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Comedian. Joined the Duke of Yorks Company at DorsetGarden Theatre in 1672. He was a favourite actor with Charles II.His most famous character was The Spanish Fryar of…

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