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Charles Macklin NPG D19956

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Wright, published by William Darling, and published by John Peter Thompson, after Charles Hayter

Charles Macklin was an Irish actor and playwright whose distinguished, though turbulent, career spanned most of the eighteenth century. Macklin first appeared as an actor at Bristol and in 1725 went to Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. He went to Drury Lane Theatre in 1733 and later was involved in its management. In 1735 he killed another actor in the greenroom over a dispute about a wig, but, although prosecuted, he received no sentence. He set the seal on his stage career at Drury Lane in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.