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A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists

A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists

by RobynAsleson (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $23.60
Synopsis

The book explores the life and career of Sarah Siddons (1755-1831), the famed English actress who revolutionised eighteenth-century English theatre while creating a public persona to promote herself. A lavish volume, the book brings together fifty-five portraits of Siddons including works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney and Gilbert Stuart.

$23.60

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: J Paul Getty Trust Publications,US
Published: 26 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 0892365579
ISBN 13: 9780892365579

Author Bio
Robyn Asleson, research associate at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California and author of Albert Moore: The Analysis of Beauty, Shelley Bennett, curator at the Huntington and author of Thomas Stothard: The Mechanisms of Art Patronage in England, Mark Leonard and Shearer West.