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8. The Spectacle of the Muse: Exhibiting the Actress at the Royal Academy
Gill Perry
Description: Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836
Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836
IN THE WINTER OF 1782/83 the actress Sarah Siddons marked her return to the Drury Lane Theatre by appearing eighty times in seven different parts. She opened in one of her most famous roles, as Isabella, the heroine of Garrick’s eponymous...
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Gill Perry
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2001 by The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and The Courtauld Institute Gallery
Related print edition pages: pp.111-125
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00023.014
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18341
Chapter subject tags:Portrait painting, British--18th centuryArt, British--Exhibitions--18th centuryRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Actresses in art--England--18th centurySiddons, Sarah, 1755-1831Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788Women and gender--Britain--18th centuryHoppner, John, 1758-1810