Hannah More (painting)

a framed oil painting on canvas, showing: a portrait of Hannah More (1745-1833), philanthropist and prolific writer; More was born in Fishponds, now part of Bristol, and became a teacher, but her early dramatic writing brought her to the attention of London's literary circle and she soon became known across the country; Hannah More wrote about the education of women, morals and the abolition of the slave trade, and died just six weeks after slavery was abolished throughout the British empire, in 1833; when she first went with her sister to London, they took with them a letter of introduction to the painter of this work, Frances Reynolds, the sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds and also his housekeeper