Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse them look like actual sculptures in the fashion they were usually depicted in the classical style. 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
Henry Siddons techniques from the German neo-classical school of acting, onto a British stock. The 1822 edition also draws on the "Essay on Gesture" of Michael William Sharp. He also wrote some plays; of one, "The Friend of the Family", Scott wrote, "Siddons's play was truly flat, but not unprofitable". Other pieces by him were "Time's a Tell-tale", and "Tale of Terror, or a Castle without a Spectre" (produced at Covent Garden on 12 May 1803). Henry Siddons Henry Siddons (4 October 1774 – 12 April 1815) was an English actor and theatrical manager, now remembered as a writer on gesture. Siddons