John Opie

(1761-1807)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Opie, John, 1761-1807 NRA: Opie John (1761-1807) Portrait and Historical Painter DNB: Opie, John (1761-1807), portrait and history painter LBT ID: JoOpie1807 VIAF ID: 2739832 LOC ID: nr91026286	B/BAP: 1761-05 DIED: 1807-04-09
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English painter brought to attention by John Wolcot; he was a member of the Royal Academy and the husband of the writer Amelia Opie whom he married in 1798.
REFERENCES TO John Opie: Mary Wollstonecraft to William Godwin, 20 April 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Thomas Holcroft, 13 September 1799 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 6 Thomas Holcroft to William Godwin, 22 November 1799 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 William Godwin to Thomas Holcroft, [May 1800] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Holcroft to William Godwin, 13 June 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 30 May 1803 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Charles Lamb to Samuel Rogers, [21 December 1833?] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Samuel Rogers, [21 December, 1833] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 2 Samuel Rogers to Richard Sharp, 21 November 1834 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 5 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XI” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (January 1848) 14-20 Found 1: ¶ 12 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IX. 1802-03 Found 1: ¶ n1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch 19: Peter Pindar Found 1: ¶ 5 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter III. Found 2: ¶ 38 ¶ 39 Chapter VIII. Found 2: ¶ 81 ¶ 82 Chapter VI. Found 6: ¶ 75 ¶ 76 ¶ 78 ¶ 100 ¶ 102 ¶ 103 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VI 1792-1803 Found 1: ¶ 23 Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 31 Ch. XII 1825 Found 1: ¶ 32 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VI. 1794-1796 Found 1: ¶ 15 Ch. IX. 1797 Ch. X. 1797 Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 10 Ch. XII. 1799 Ch. II. 1800 Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. V. 1802-1803 Found 1: ¶ 7 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter I. 1803-1805. Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter II. 1831-34. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1833