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Siddons' birthplace, an inn in Brecon, Wales, is now known as The Sarah Siddons Inn. In 1755, when Siddons was born in lodgings on an upper floor, it was a tavern called The Shoulder of Mutton. [56] Sarah Siddons' House (the Old House) in Lower Lydbrook, Gloucestershire is reputedly her childhood home. [57]
The house was purchased on 20 January 1958 for £5,250. By September, the Gainsborough's House Society was formally established to run the museum as an independent charity. Following the successful acquisition of the building, local companies and individuals also gave materials and their labour to help renovate the building and the garden.
Royal Academy summer exhibition, Somerset House, 1784 , cat. no. 190, as Portrait of Mrs. Siddons; whole length. - original painting (now in the Huntington), of which this is an autograph replica
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 ...
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 .
Sarah Siddons' House, also called the Old House, is a cottage in the village of Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, England. A Grade II* listed building , the cottage was reputedly the childhood home of the actor Sarah Siddons .
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]
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 ...