This man wears a bright yellow dress and brandishes a stick at a man holding a lantern in a painting by Johann Zoffany.
This man wears a bright yellow dress and brandishes a stick at a man holding a lantern in a painting by Johann Zoffany. In a portrait by Angelica Kauffmann, this man clutches the chair he is sitting backwards on. This man's wife reaches over him to grab a feather pen in a portrait that he refused, leading the painter to damage the painting. In a different painting, a woman in pink painted in the style of Correggio smiles at the viewer while pulling this man, while he laughs at a woman in blue painted in the style of Guido Reni. In another painting, he raises his right hand with palm out towards the viewer while sitting on a bed in a battle tent, portraying a moment when his (*) character awakens from nightmares of ghosts. Joshua Reynolds depicted [This Man] Between Tragedy and Comedy, while William Hogarth portrayed him as the title character in the last act of Shakespeare's Richard III. For 10 points, name this English actor, the subject of many eighteenth century portraits.
This man wears a bright yellow dress and brandishes a stick at a man holding a lantern in a painting by Johann Zoffany.
David Garrick [prompt on Sir John Brute; prompt on Richard III until mentioned]