National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, limited · leaf 168
, during the visits of Charles and Mary Lamb to the Rev.Henry F. Cary, father of the artist, at the British Museum. In 1796Mary Lamb, who was also possessed of much literary genius herself,in a sudden (it of insanity, took her invalid mothers life. Herbrother devoted his life to her, but she… … 154 THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS. 1775-1818. Painted by Henry WilliamPiekersgill, R.A. Generally known as Monk Lewis ; romance writer and dramatist.Educated at Westminster and at Weimar. Author of The Monk, Tales of Wonder, and The Castle Spectre. His style of writing…
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