Maria Macklin

During the 1730s her father Charles Macklin and her mother Ann Grace Purvor were lovers.

Her father went off to start a coffee house featuring talks by himself whilst Maria improved her reportoire.

In 1754/5 she played Polly in the Beggar's Opera and her mother's role of Wikow Lackit in Oroonoko.

[2] Her mother became ill and this meant that she and her father had to turn down on off to both of them in order that they could care for Anne.

She left in 1760 to appear as Juliet at Covent Garden leaving Drury Lane at the same time as her father, who had fallen out with Garrick.

Maria was included in the painting in the role of Portia and Jane Lessingham is at the foot of the dias.

[4] Her father soon began an affair with his servant Elizabeth Jones after his wife died.