Rose Emma Drummond Explained

Rose Emma Drummond
Death Date:1840
Known For:Portrait miniatures of theatre actresses and writers
Death Place:Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality:British
Elected:Royal Academy of the Arts

Rose Emma Drummond (c. 1790-1840) was a British portrait miniaturist who is known for her works of theatre actresses. She was active between active 1815 and 1837.[1] She was also the inspiration for Miss La Creevy in the Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby.

Early life

Her parents were the artist Samuel Drummond and his first wife.[2] Her half-sisters Ellen Drummond, Eliza Ann Drummond, Jane Drummond and Rosa Myra Drummond and her half brothers Julian Drummond and Philip Maurice Drummond, from her father's second and third marriages, all also became artists.

Career

Drummond is most known for her portrait miniature work and painting theatre actresses, with her famous sitters including Elizabeth Walker Blanchard,[3]  Louisa Chatterley,[4]  Clara Fisher, Elizabeth Inchbald,[5]  Henrietta Mangeon, Jane Pope,[6]  Harriet Smithson,[7] Mary Tighe,[8] Ellen Tree, Emma Wensley and Anne Wignell.[9] Her sitters were sometimes dressed as their characters. She also painted Hannah Thatcher, who was "a young lady born deaf and dumb who was presented to Her late Majesty on acquiring the faculty of speech, and the sense of hearing".[10]

She was an Associate of the Royal Academy of Arts and exhibited there throughout her career.[11] Drummond also exhibited at the New Water-Colour Society between 1831 and 1835.[12]

She is also considered the inspiration for the character Miss La Creevy, the middle-aged miniature painter in the 1838 novel Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens.[13] In 1835 she had painted his likeness on ivory as an engagement present from him to Catherine Hogarth,[14] [15] with "Painted by Rose Emma Drummond, 8 Soho Square, 9th July 1835" engraved on the back.[16] Drummond was portrayed by Nora Nicholson in the 1970 BBC 2 film The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens.[17]

Late life and death

Drummond emigrated to Mexico in the late 1830s to live with her younger brother Samuel Drummond. She died in Mexico City in 1840.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Rintoul, M. C. . Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction . 2014-03-05 . Routledge . 978-1-136-11940-8 . 377 . en.
  2. Web site: Mrs Pointer and the Drummond Family . 2024-10-04 . www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk.
  3. Book: Bogar, Thomas A. . Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre: The New York Reign of "Blood and Thunder" Melodramas . 2017-12-11 . Springer . 978-3-319-68406-2 . 12 . en.
  4. Web site: CollectionsOnline G0112 . 2024-10-04 . garrick.ssl.co.uk.
  5. Book: Jenkins, Annibel . I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald . 2021-12-14 . University Press of Kentucky . 978-0-8131-9393-9 . en.
  6. Web site: After Drummond, Rose Emma (fl.1815-1837) - Miss Jane Pope. . 2024-10-04 . www.rct.uk . en.
  7. Book: Raby, Peter . Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz . 2003-12-11 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-54580-8 . 21 . en.
  8. Web site: Portrait of Mary Tighe (1772-1810), Poet . 2024-10-04 . onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie . en.
  9. Book: Highfill . Philip H. . A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 . Burnim . Kalman A. . Langhans . Edward A. . 1993 . SIU Press . 978-0-8093-1803-2 . 27 . en.
  10. Book: Spies-Gans, Paris A. . A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in London and Paris, 1760-1830 . 2022 . Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art . 978-1-913107-29-1 . en.
  11. Book: Royal Academy of Arts . The Exhibition of the Royal Academy . 1822 . William Bunce, printer to the Royal Academy . 27 . en.
  12. Book: Stewart, Brian . The dictionary of British portrait painters : up to 1920 . 1996 . Woodbridge, Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club . Internet Archive . 978-1-85149-173-5 . 276.
  13. Book: Kitton, Frederic George . The Life of Charles Dickens: His Life, Writings, and Personality . 2004 . Lexden Publishing Limited . 978-1-904995-02-9 . 437 . en.
  14. Book: Harris . Elree I. . A Gallery of Her Own: An Annotated Bibliography of Women in Victorian Painting . Scott . Shirley R. . 2013-11-26 . Routledge . 978-1-135-49441-4 . en.
  15. Book: Kaplan, Fred . Dickens: A Biography . 2013-04-23 . Open Road Media . 978-1-4804-0979-8 . 1802 . en.
  16. Book: Nayder, Lillian . The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth . 2011 . Cornell University Press . 978-0-8014-4787-7 . 23 . en.
  17. Web site: 1970-06-02 . The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens . 2024-10-04 . BBC Programme Index.

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