Sarah Siddons
Welsh actress (1755-1831) · Actors · Died at 75
Sarah Siddons was a Welsh actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. Contemporaneous critic William Hazlitt dubbed Siddons as "tragedy personified".
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Sarah Siddons as Euphrasia in Arthur Murphy's The Grecian Daughter, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1782
Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth, by Robert Smirke, c. 1790-1810
Sarah Siddons by J. Dickinson
Engraving, artist unknown, from National Library of Wales
1785 engraving from Charles Shirreff's miniature of Siddons and John Philip Kemble
Lawrence was in love with Sarah Siddons's daughter Sally. Painting by Thomas Lawrence, eighteenth century.
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Actors
Type
Actor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1755 to 1831 · aged 75
