Sarah Siddons
a Welsh actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. Contemporaneous critic William Hazlitt dubbed Siddons as tragedy personified.
Sarah Siddons | British Actress & Tragic Heroine - Britannica
Sarah Siddons was one of the greatest English tragic actresses. She was the eldest of 12 children of Roger and Sarah Kemble, who led a troupe of traveling ...
Sarah Siddons | Westminster Abbey
In the chapel of St Andrew is a larger than life-size white marble statue to Sarah Siddons, reputed to be the country's finest tragic actress.
SARAH SIDDONS - THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN YOU MIGHT ...
Sarah Siddons was considered the country's most talented tragic actress, most famous for her spectacular portrayal of Lady Macbeth.
Sarah Siddons (née Kemble) - Person - National Portrait Gallery
Actress A leading tragic actress and celebrity, Siddons's first major success came in 1782 with her portrayal of Isabella in the Fatal Marriage, ...
Sarah Siddons - Brooklyn Museum
b. 1755, Brecon, Wales; d. 1831, London. Born into the theatrical Kemble family, Sarah Siddons would attain iconic status as a tragedienne, although her parents ...
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A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists
Sarah Siddons as Jane Shore, 1791- Watercolor on paper,. 24.2 X 15.9 cm (95/i3 X 65/i2 in.). London, Victoria and Albert Museum. Above: Portrait of David ...
Sarah (Kemble) Siddons as the Tragic Muse
This large-scale painting portrays Sarah Siddons, a famed Welsh-born British theater actress and cultural icon in the late 18th–early 19th century, as the ...
The most famous actress in the Georgian world - Unseen Histories
Sarah Siddons grew up as a member of a family troupe of travelling actors, always poor and often hungry, resorting to foraging for turnips to ...
Statue of Sarah Siddons - Heritage Of London Trust
She died in 1831 in London and was buried in St Mary's cemetery at Paddington Green. Over 5,000 people attended her funeral. This statue, by French sculptor ...
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse (article)
The most emblematic of Sir Joshua Reynolds's celebrity portraits of women is Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse. Siddons was one of the first women to play Hamlet— ...
Sarah Siddons (née Kemble) ('Mrs Siddons with the Emblems of ...
Siddons, holding a tragic mask and a dagger, is shown with a monument to Shakespeare. The representation caused much debate when shown at the Royal Academy in ...
The mission of the Society has been to fund scholarships to promising theater arts students at top Chicago area universities.
A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists
Recreates the life of the great eighteenth-century actress Sarah Siddons through the many portraits of her painted by the leading artists of the day.
Thomas Gainsborough | Mrs Siddons | NG683 - National Gallery
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'Queen of Drury Lane' Sarah Siddons celebrated in new play | Theatre
A new play – thought to be the first to be written about Siddons – is to receive its world premiere at Hampstead Theatre.
Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse - Wikipedia
Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse ... Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, or Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse, is a 1783–1784 painting by English painter Sir Joshua ...
The Sarah Siddons Audio Files | University of Michigan Press
In The Sarah Siddons Audio Files, Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor's voice actually sounded.
Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse | Dulwich Picture Gallery
The towering figure of the actor, Sarah Siddons (née Kemble; 1755–1831), commands the canvas. She appears spot-lit, seated on a throne borne aloft on clouds.