Rose Emma Drummond

Rose Emma Drummond (c. 1790-1840) was a British portrait miniaturist who is known for her works of theatre actresses.

[2] Drummond is most known for her portrait miniature work and painting theatre actresses, with her famous sitters including Elizabeth Walker Blanchard,[2][3] Louisa Chatterley,[4] Clara Fisher, Elizabeth Inchbald,[5] Henrietta Mangeon, Jane Pope,[6] Harriet Smithson,[7] Mary Tighe,[8] Ellen Tree, Emma Wensley and Anne Wignell.

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".

[12] She 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.

[16] Drummond was portrayed by Nora Nicholson in the 1970 BBC 2 film The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens.

Engraving of Frances Allsop, after an original painting by Drummond, held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London