A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists
brings together three engaging essays that re-create the eventful life,
both on and off the stage, of the great eighteenth-century actress Sarah
Siddons. Siddons was renowned for her bravura performances in tragic
roles, and her fame was enhanced by the many portraits of her painted by
the leading artists of the day. The greatest of these was Sir Joshua
Reynolds’s Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a painting now in the Huntington Art Collections and recently studied at the Getty Center. A Passion for Performance places this magnificent portrait within the context of Siddons’s career as an actress and cultural icon.
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