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After some success as a fashionable playwright, More turned to the serious work of an evangelical reformer. From the 1780s, she wrote numerous treatises attacking moral laxity, fashion and female independence. Most influential were her 'Cheap Repository Tracts', which sold for a penny and reached millions. These took the form of 'improving tales' which sought to reform the poor by emphasising sobriety, hard work, religion and pride in Britain's constitution. The writer and reformer Hannah More was in her seventies at the time this portrait was painted. The most striking part of her outfit is the layered 'Van Dyck' ruff collar and high-crowned, frilled muslin cap tied under the chin and trimmed with abundant silk ribbons. These were a popular form of indoor head wear.
Title
Hannah More
Date
1821
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 125.7 x W 89.5 cm
Accession number
412
Acquisition method
Purchased, 1875
Work type
Painting
National Portrait Gallery, London
St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England
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