A Passion for Performance
A Passion for Performance

Author: Shelley Bennett

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1999-09-02

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0892365579

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A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists brings together three engaging essays – by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leonard, and Shearer West – that recreate 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. Includes a chronology of Siddons’s life by volume editor Robyn Asleson.

Catalogue of Old and Modern Engravings. First Day's Sale, Portraits in Mezzotint, After Sir Wm. Beechey, T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner, Sir T. Lawrence, Sir J. Reynolds, G. Romney, Etc.; Plates from J. M. W. Turner's Liber Studiorum; Topographical Prints, Principally in Colours, & Drawings, the Property of Cornelia, Countess of Craven, from the Coombe Abbey Collection, Swiss Views in Colours, the Property of Lt.-Col. G. J. Scovell, Volumes of Portraits, Fancy Subjects, Etc.. Second Day's Sale, Modern Engravings, the Property of a Gentleman, Including Impressions, Principally Artists' Proofs, After John Constable, Sir E. Burne-Jones, B. W. Leader, Sir Leighton, Sir J. E. Millais, Meissonier, Sir L. Alma-Tadema, G. F. Watts, Etc., Sporting Subjects, Printed in Colours, the Property of J. Deighton Patmore, Esq., of 72, Ladbroke Road, Holland, Park, W., Portraits in Colours by F. Bartolozzi, After Sir J. Reynolds; Plates from J. M. W. Turner's Liber Studiorum, the Property of a Lady
Catalogue of Old and Modern Engravings. First Day's Sale, Portraits in Mezzotint, After Sir Wm. Beechey, T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner, Sir T. Lawrence, Sir J. Reynolds, G. Romney, Etc.; Plates from J. M. W. Turner's Liber Studiorum; Topographical Prints, Principally in Colours, & Drawings, the Property of Cornelia, Countess of Craven, from the Coombe Abbey Collection, Swiss Views in Colours, the Property of Lt.-Col. G. J. Scovell, Volumes of Portraits, Fancy Subjects, Etc.. Second Day's Sale, Modern Engravings, the Property of a Gentleman, Including Impressions, Principally Artists' Proofs, After John Constable, Sir E. Burne-Jones, B. W. Leader, Sir Leighton, Sir J. E. Millais, Meissonier, Sir L. Alma-Tadema, G. F. Watts, Etc., Sporting Subjects, Printed in Colours, the Property of J. Deighton Patmore, Esq., of 72, Ladbroke Road, Holland, Park, W., Portraits in Colours by F. Bartolozzi, After Sir J. Reynolds; Plates from J. M. W. Turner's Liber Studiorum, the Property of a Lady

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