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