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 Frederick Lincoln Siddons Frederick Lincoln Siddons (November 21, 1864 – June 19, 1931) was a United States federal judge. Siddons was born in Highgate, Middlesex (now part of London) on November 21, 1864, and baptized on January 11, 1865 at St Michael's, Highgate. He was the eldest of three children of Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, and Mary Agnes Cameron of New York. The parents were not married until 1870. Joachim Hayward switched between his real surname (Stocqueler) and the imaginary one, suggesting that he was the illegitimate son of George John Siddons, whose mother was the actress Mrs Sarah Siddons. There