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| attributed to Jean-Honoré Fragonard after Domenico Fetti Portrait of actor Tristano Martinelli ca. 1760 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| attributed to William Hamilton Portrait Study of Mrs. Siddons ca. 1784 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| attributed to Richard Cosway Mrs. Siddons reading in a Grotto ca. 1810 oil on canvas Scarborough Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| Anonymous British Artist John Philip Kemble as Vicentio in Measure for Measure ca. 1794 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| William Beechey Portrait of John Philip Kemble 1798-99 oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| anonymous copyist after Thomas Lawrence John Philip Kemble as Rolla in Pizarro by Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1800 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
"My brave associates – partners of my toil, my feelings and my fame! – can Rolla's words add vigour to the virtuous energies which inspire your hearts? – No –YOU have judged as I have, the foulness of the crafty plea by which these bold invaders would delude you – Your generous spirit has compared as mine has, the motives, which, in a war like this, can animate their minds, and ours. – THEY by a strange frenzy driven, fight for power, for plunder, and our homes. – THEY follow an adventurer whom they fear – and obey a power which they hate – WE serve a monarch whom we love – a God whom we adore. – Wherever they move in anger, desolation tracks their progress! – Wherever they pause in amity, affliction mourns their friendship! – They boast, they come but to improve our state, enlarge our thoughts, and free us from the yoke of error! – Yes – THEY will give enlightened freedom to our minds, who are themselves the slaves of passion, avarice and pride – They offer us their protection – Yes, such protection as vultures give to lambs – covering and devouring them! – They call on us to barter all of good we have inherited and proved, for the desperate chance of something better which they promise. – Be our plain answer this: The throne WE honour is the PEOPLE'S CHOICE – the laws we reverence are our brave fathers' legacy – the faith we follow teaches us to live in bonds of charity with all mankind, and die with hope of bliss beyond the grave. Tell your invaders this, and tell them too, we seek no change; and, least of all, such change as they would bring us."
– Pizarro, or, The Spaniards in Peru: A Tragedy in Five Acts (Act II, scene 2) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1799), adapted from Die Spanier in Peru by August von Kotzebue (1796)
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| Gilbert Stuart Portrait of John Philip Kemble ca. 1785 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| François Bouchot Portrait of opera singer Giulia Grisi 1840 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Music, London |
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| John Partridge Portrait of opera singer Gaetano Crivelli ca. 1825 oil on canvas Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain, London |
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| attributed to Henry Fuseli Harriet Mellon as Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor ca. 1795 oil on canvas Burton Gallery, University of Leeds |
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| Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of dancer Giovanna Baccelli ca. 1782 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| William Nicholson Miss Wish Wynne as Janet Cannot in The Great Adventure by Arnold Bennett 1913 oil on canvas Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Nina Hamnett Portrait of dancer Rupert Doone 1922-23 oil on canvas Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| Hugh Goldwin Rivière Three Impressions of singer Jean Sterling Mackinlay 1912 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Music, London |
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| Philip Harris Portrait of dancer Anthony Dowell 1995 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |