Sarah Siddons of feminine propriety. Commissioned and completed in 1784, Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait, "Sarah Siddons as The Tragic Muse", is characterized by Reynolds' inspiration, contextualisation of the Muse, and distinctive brush work and paint palette. This portrait, as Heather McPherson writes, became the known depiction of tragedy, infused with contemporary ideas about acting and representation of the passions in Siddons' melancholy expression and deportment. Mary Hamilton's correspondence with her fiancé illuminated its seamless transition from "the artist's studio to the theatrical stage", practical venues that interlocked in the eighteenth century and formed a large part in creating the very idea of
Frederick Lincoln Siddons is no evidence to support this, but it is typical of Joachim's behavior. For example, when Frederick Lincoln was baptized his father called himself James Henry Siddons, and Mary Agnes used the same surname, despite their marriage being recorded as Stocquelers. Six years after the baptism, in the 1871 London census, the family were all recorded as Stocquelers. Frederick Lincoln Siddons arrived in the United States with his parents and sister on June 18, 1875, after his father decided to leave England. They lived at first in New York but, a year or so later, his father accepted a position