# Portrait of Ann Brown in the Role of Miranda [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ZOFFANY, Johann]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 218 x 159 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Ann Brown in the Role of Miranda c. 1770 Oil on canvas, 218 x 159 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Ann Brown was an actress and singer, here portrayed in the role of Miranda in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Between 1769 and 1779 Ann Brown was a player in the company of the famous actor David Garrick, a friend and patron of Zoffany, who also painted him in various scenes from the stage. ## Related artworks - [Charles Towneley in his Sculpture Gallery]() - [Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match]() - [Portrait of Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria]() - [Portrait of Don Ferdinando di Borbone, Duke of Parma]() - [Portrait of Sir Robert Preston]() - [Portrait of William Stackhouse]() - [Prince Ernest Gottlob Albert of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]() - [The Tribuna of the Uffizi \(detail\)]() - [The Tribuna of the Uffizi \(detail\)]() - [The Tribuna of the Uffizi]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()