Elizabeth Billington (1768-1818), English opera singer who was popular in England and Italy. Born Elizabeth Weichsel, she married musician James Billington in 1783 and M. Felissent in 1799. This portrait painted on her triumphant return to the London stage in 1801. Copperplate engraving by William Ridley after a portrait by Richard Cosway RA, published for the Monthly Mirror by Vernor and Hood, Poultry, London, 1801.

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