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In April 2010, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour Drama presented Sarah Siddons: Life in Five Sittings, a radio drama by David Pownall about the long relationship between Siddons and artist Thomas Lawrence, in five 15-minute parts, [46] whilst she is the central character in The Divine Mrs S., a 2024 play by April De Angelis.
The only British artists with works in the collection are William Boxall, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth, John Hoppner, John Callcott Horsley, John Jackson, Thomas Jones, Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen, Thomas Lawrence, John Linnell, Henry Raeburn, Joshua Reynolds, Martin Archer Shee, George Stubbs, Joseph Mallord William ...
Gainsborough was founded in 1924 by Michael Balcon and, from 1927, was a sister company to the Gaumont British, with Balcon as Director of Production for both studios. Whilst Gaumont-British, based at Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush, produced the "quality" pictures, Gainsborough mainly produced 'B' movies and melodramas at its Islington ...
Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ n z b ər ə /; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, [1] he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. [2]
Portrait of Sarah Siddons is an 1804 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Lawrence depicting the actress Sarah Siddons. Siddons was the leading tragedienne of the early Regency era. [1] She was a member of the Kemble family of actors, that included her brothers John Philip Kemble and Charles Kemble.
One of Gainsborough's finest portraits, this full-length portrait has become an icon of the Scottish National Gallery. It is one of three works the artist completed of Mary Graham. A more conventional half-length portrait, The Hon. Mrs. Thomas Graham , also completed between 1775 and 1777, is believed to be the painting that was initially ...
Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, or Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse, is a 1783–1784 painting by English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. The 1784 version is in the Huntington Library art museum, [ 1 ] while a 1789 reproduction from Reynolds's studio is in the Dulwich Picture Gallery .
Henderson’s friends in Bath included Thomas Gainsborough, who painted his portrait, and the dramatist Richard Cumberland. Known as "The Bath Roscius", Henderson performed from 1772 until 1778 in Palmer’s company, adding Lear, Othello, Posthumus, Shylock, King John, and Falstaff (in both Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor ) to his ...