Paintings
Sarah (Kemble) Siddons as the Tragic Muse
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- Date
- 1783-1784
- Accession number
- 21.2
- Maker
- Joshua Reynolds(Opens in new tab) (British, 1723–1792)
- Sitter
- Sitter: Sarah (Kemble) Siddons(Opens in new tab) (British, 1755–1831)
- Dimensions
- 94 1/4 x 58 1/8 in. (239.4 x 147.6 cm.)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Description
- This large-scale painting portrays Sarah Siddons, a famed Welsh-born British theater actress and cultural icon in the late 18th–early 19th century, as the Muse of Tragedy. In the shadows behind her are the personifications of Pity and Terror.
