Portrait of Amelia Opie

{{Short description|Painting by John Opie}}

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| image_file=File:Amelia Opie by John Opie.jpg

| image_size=250px

| title= Portrait of Amelia Opie

| artist= John Opie

| year= 1798

| type=Oil on canvas, portrait

| height_metric= 74.3

| width_metric= 62.6

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| museum=National Portrait Gallery

| city=London

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Portrait of Amelia Opie is a 1798 portrait painting by the British artist John Opie depicting his wife Amelia Opie, a noted writer and abolitionist.Bray p.118 It was painted the year the couple married. Walker p.376-77 The Cornish-born John Opie was a noted portraitist of the late Georgian era. After his death in 1807 Amelia became a quaker known for her role in good causes. Today the painting is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London, having been acquired in 1887.{{cite web | url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw04749/Amelia-Opie? | title=NPG 765; Amelia Opie - Portrait Extended - National Portrait Gallery }} It has been describe as "one the finest portraits of the era, rivalling in expression Reynolds' Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse".Burwick p.238