Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse is a 1784 oil painting by Joshua Reynolds. Mrs. Sarah Siddons: Sarah Siddons was a well-known actress of the 18th century who became famous for her role as Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth. Born Sarah Kemble, aged 18 she married William Siddons, also an actor, and they had seven children of who only two survived. Sarah's parents sent her to work as a lady's maid and with this job she was exposed to the works of England's literary greats such as Milton and Shakespeare. She also began acting and had
Sarah Siddons (horse) 2 October. Ridden by Joe Mercer, she started a 59/1 outsider and finished last of the twenty-six runners behind Alleged. In 1975, the independent Timeform organisation gave her a rating of 102 p (the p indicating that she was likely to make significantly more than usual improvement), twenty-six pounds behind their top-rated juvenile filly Theia. In 1976, Timeform awarded her a rating of 122, making her nine pounds inferior to Pawneese, but described her as "undoubtedly the best three-year-old filly trained in either England or Ireland". Despite failing to win in 1977, Sarah Siddons was rated the best older female