English portrait painter and member of the Royal Academy (1795); he was a close friend of William Gifford and the father of Byron's correspondent Richard Belgrave Hoppner.

REFERENCES TO John Hoppner:

Charles Lamb to George Dyer, 5 December 1808 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Washington Irving to William Jerdan, [October? 1819] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 11 February 1821 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854)

Robert William Hay to John Murray III, 7 July 1856 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)