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The Garrick Club is a private members' club in London, founded in 1831. It is one of the oldest members' clubs in the world.
Oct 28, 2021 · Not surprisingly, Garrick’s image was everywhere after his death, in paintings and prints, in tea service sets and on enamel pendants. An image of Tancred, graceful and poised, shows Garrick’s artistry was even the subject of porcelain figurines.
Aug 27, 2018 · David Garrick, 1717–1779: A Theatrical Life exhibition material. This article offers a comprehensive and descriptive list of items displayed in the exhibition. The exhibition material is grouped into five major themes: The Man; The Actor; The Entrepreneur; The Playwright and Adapter; and Garrick's Legacy.
Jul 9, 2015 · Garrick’s image—both onstage and off—was a valuable commodity in London’s celebrity-obsessed marketplace where public personalities and their private lives were eagerly chronicled by the press, catering to the public’s seemingly endless appetite for novelty, fashion, and scandal.
David Garrick. (1717-1779), Actor, playwright and theatre manager. Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter associated with 61 portraits. Garrick was born in Hereford and grew up in Lichfield, Staffordshire. When Samuel Johnson opened his ill-fated school in 1735, Garrick was one of the few pupils.
Apr 19, 2016 · Professor Richard Schoch explains how David Garrick, an 18th-century actor-manager and playwright, formed the popular attitudes towards Shakespeare that remain to this day. When Shakespeare died in 1616, he was far from being the global icon ‘Shakespeare’ that we celebrate today.
Among the most famous portraits of Garrick are those by Hogarth, Reynolds and Zoffany. The National Portrait Gallery has 55 portraits associated with David Garrick, mostly paintings, but also a painted terracotta, produced c. 1758, after the sculpture by Louis Francois Roubillac.
