Ellen Terry was painted by Lady Macbeth in a celebrated work by which artist?
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth a contemporaneous photograph of Ellen Terry wearing the dress. It also holds a grisaille oil sketch made by Sargent for Terry's golden jubilee programme in 1906, depicting Terry as Lady Macbeth standing at the entrance to a castle with robed attendants, based on an earlier colour drawing held at Smallhythe Place. Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth is an oil painting by John Singer Sargent. Painted in 1889, it depicts actress Ellen Terry in a famous performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth", wearing a green dress decorated with iridescent beetle wings. The play was produced by
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth give the appearance of the scales of a serpent". Terry wrote to her daughter Edith Craig, "I wish you could see my dresses. They are superb, especially the first one: green beetles on it, and such a cloak! The photographs give no idea of it at all, for it is in colour that it is so splendid. The dark red hair is fine. The whole thing is Rossetti—rich stained-glass effects." Oscar Wilde quipped that "Lady Macbeth seems to be an economical housekeeper and evidently patronises local industries for her husband's clothes and servant's liveries, but she takes care to do