• Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, or Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse, is a 1783–1784 painting by English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • This oil on canvas painting is by the English portrait artist, Joshua Reynolds, and is titled “Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse”.
  • In picturing Sarah Siddons as the Muse of Tragedy, evoking and prefiguring her historic performances as a tragically heroic Lady Macbeth, and possibly...
  • In picturing Sarah Siddons as the Muse of Tragedy, Sir Joshua Reynolds helped make an argument for women’s equal standing with that of men within the acting...
  • Reynolds was inspired not only by Sarah Siddons' extreme talent to embody the tragic heroine in Macbeth, but also by the Classical subject matter of the muses...
  • Henry George Herbert, later 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (1772-1833) as the Infant Bacchus by Joshua Reynolds.
  • Among her fans was Sir Joshua Reynolds, the near legendary Georgian artist, and he memorialised Mrs Siddons forever in his remarkable 1784 work, Mrs...
  • Lady Sarah is also famous for her portraits, with one of them created by Thomas Gainsborough and the other by Joshua Reynolds, who was a proponent...
  • Her identification with the Tragic Muse, Melpomene, was a commonplace of the time; here Reynolds translates this idea into a solemn Michelangelesque icon...
  • [9] Russell had already celebrated Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse in his History of Modern Europe, and Romney had previously painted Mrs...
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  • Sir Joshua Reynold's painting 'Mrs. Siddons As The Tragic Muse' was a hallmark for both art and acting in Georgian England.
  • Critics included William Blake who published the vitriolic Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses in 1808.
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