Rose Emma Drummond
{{short description|British portrait miniaturist (d. 1840)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Rose Emma Drummond
| death_date = 1840
| known_for = Portrait miniatures of theatre actresses and writers
| death_place = Mexico City, Mexico
| nationality = British
| elected = Royal Academy of the Arts
| birth_date = c. 1790
}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}{{Use British English|date=July 2025}}
Rose Emma Drummond (c. 1790–1840) was a British portrait miniaturist who is known for her works of theatre actresses. She was active between 1815 and 1837.{{Cite book |last=Rintoul |first=M. C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P3gBAwAAQBAJ&dq=rose+emma+drummond&pg=PA377 |title=Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction |date=2014-03-05 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-11940-8 |pages=377 |language=en}} She was also the inspiration for Miss La Creevy in the Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby.
Early life
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Drummond's parents were the artist Samuel Drummond and his first wife.{{Cite web |title=Mrs Pointer and the Drummond Family |url=https://www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/BTNPointerMyra.htm#:~:text=The%20painter%20of%20the%20original%20portrait%20was |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk}} Her half-sisters Ellen Drummond, Eliza Ann Drummond, Jane Drummond and Rosa Myra Drummond and her half brothers Julian Drummond and Philip Maurice Drummond, from her father's second and third marriages, all also became artists.
Career
Drummond is most known for her portrait miniature work and painting theatre actresses, with her famous sitters including Elizabeth Walker Blanchard,{{Cite book |last=Bogar |first=Thomas A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mrJCDwAAQBAJ&dq=rose+emma+drummond&pg=PA12 |title=Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre: The New York Reign of "Blood and Thunder" Melodramas |date=2017-12-11 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-68406-2 |pages=12 |language=en}} Louisa Chatterley,{{Cite web |title=CollectionsOnline {{!}} G0112 |url=https://garrick.ssl.co.uk/object-g0112 |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=garrick.ssl.co.uk}} Clara Fisher, Elizabeth Inchbald,{{Cite book |last=Jenkins |first=Annibel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=--QzEAAAQBAJ&dq=rose+emma+drummond&pg=PT722 |title=I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald |date=2021-12-14 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-9393-9 |language=en}} Henrietta Mangeon, Jane Pope,{{Cite web |title=After Drummond, Rose Emma (fl.1815-1837) - Miss Jane Pope. |url=https://www.rct.uk/collection/660331/miss-jane-pope |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=www.rct.uk |language=en}} Harriet Smithson,{{Cite book |last=Raby |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gEbj-7qUe4kC&dq=rose+emma+drummond&pg=PA21 |title=Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz |date=2003-12-11 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-54580-8 |pages=21 |language=en}} Mary Tighe,{{Cite web |title=Portrait of Mary Tighe (1772-1810), Poet |url=http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/objects/1192/portrait-of-mary-tighe-17721810-poet?ctx=2ecbb95a-2c1c-4f1d-9039-dcadf244e9f7&idx=0 |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie |language=en}} Ellen Tree, Emma Wensley and Anne Wignell.{{Cite book |last1=Highfill |first1=Philip H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5A4EHRa1dfcC&dq=rose+emma+drummond&pg=PA77 |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 |last2=Burnim |first2=Kalman A. |last3=Langhans |first3=Edward A. |date=1993 |publisher=SIU Press |isbn=978-0-8093-1803-2 |pages=27 |language=en}} Her sitters were sometimes dressed as their characters. She also painted Hannah Thatcher, who was "a young lady born deaf and dumb who was presented to Her late Majesty on acquiring the faculty of speech, and the sense of hearing".{{Cite book |last=Spies-Gans |first=Paris A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LMSkzgEACAAJ |title=A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in London and Paris, 1760-1830 |date=2022 |publisher=Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art |isbn=978-1-913107-29-1 |language=en}}
Drummond was an Associate of the Royal Academy of Arts and exhibited there throughout her career.{{Cite book |last=Royal Academy of Arts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XC4FAAAAQAAJ&dq=rose+emma+drummond&pg=RA8-PA27-IA1 |title=The Exhibition of the Royal Academy |date=1822 |publisher=William Bunce, printer to the Royal Academy |pages=27 |language=en}} Drummond also exhibited at the New Water-Colour Society between 1831 and 1835.{{Cite book |last=Stewart |first=Brian |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofbrit0000stew/mode/2up |title=The dictionary of British portrait painters : up to 1920 |date=1996 |publisher=Woodbridge, Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-1-85149-173-5 |pages=276}}
Drummond is also considered the inspiration for the character Miss La Creevy, the middle-aged miniature painter in the 1838 novel Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens.{{Cite book |last=Kitton |first=Frederic George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YfKpCdOnvrMC&dq=rose+emma+drummond&pg=PA437 |title=The Life of Charles Dickens: His Life, Writings, and Personality |date=2004 |publisher=Lexden Publishing Limited |isbn=978-1-904995-02-9 |pages=437 |language=en}} In 1835 she had painted his likeness on ivory as an engagement present from him to Catherine Hogarth,{{Cite book |last1=Harris |first1=Elree I. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MYguAgAAQBAJ&dq=rose+emma+drummond&pg=PT29 |title=A Gallery of Her Own: An Annotated Bibliography of Women in Victorian Painting |last2=Scott |first2=Shirley R. |date=2013-11-26 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-49441-4 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Kaplan |first=Fred |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TRhJluStCYUC&dq=rose+emma+drummond&pg=PA1802 |title=Dickens: A Biography |date=2013-04-23 |publisher=Open Road Media |isbn=978-1-4804-0979-8 |pages=1802 |language=en}} with "Painted by Rose Emma Drummond, 8 Soho Square, 9th July 1835" engraved on the back.{{Cite book |last=Nayder |first=Lillian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fb9Dn3yHmJMC&dq=rose+emma+drummond&pg=PA23 |title=The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth |date=2011 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-4787-7 |pages=23 |language=en}} Drummond was portrayed by Nora Nicholson in the 1970 BBC 2 film The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens.{{Cite web |date=1970-06-02 |title=The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bd3bbf540f38405db15b2772609d1e0b |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=BBC Programme Index}}
Late life and death
Drummond emigrated to Mexico in the late 1830s to live with her younger brother Samuel Drummond. She died in Mexico City in 1840.
References
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External links
- [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp131445/rose-emma-drummond?role=art#:~:text=Rose%20Emma%20Drummond%20(active%201815-1837), Works by Rose Emma Drummond] at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- [http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/people/753/rose-emma-drummond/objects Works by Rose Emma Drummond] at the National Gallery of Ireland
- [https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?id_person=A26426&page=1&page_size=15 Works by Rose Emma Drummond] at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Category:19th-century British women artists
Category:British emigrants to Mexico
Category:British portrait miniaturists