"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"
"actors Ellen Terry, Winifred Emery, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mrs Patrick Campbell. In 1884, she made Constance Lloyd's wedding dress for her marriage to Oscar Wilde. She made other dresses for Lloyd as well that helped to set the new Aestheticist fashion for looser, more flowing garments with theatrical touches such as lace, embroidery, or brocade. One of Nettleship's most well-known works is a theatrical costume made for Ellen Terry in 1888 when she was playing the role of Lady Macbeth. Designed by Alice Comyns Carr and crocheted by Nettleship to simulate a soft chain mail, the dress was oversewn with"
"Ellen Terry Dame Alice Ellen Terry, (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928), known professionally as Ellen Terry, was an English actress who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. Born into a family of actors, Terry began performing as a child, acting in Shakespeare plays in London, and toured throughout the British provinces in her teens. At 16 she married the 46-year-old artist George Frederic Watts, but they separated within a year. She soon returned to the stage but began a relationship with the architect Edward William Godwin and retired from the stage for six years. She resumed acting"
"assistants; he handled all the tasks, such as preparing his canvases, varnishing the painting, arranging for photography, shipping, and documentation. He commanded about $5,000 per portrait, or about $130,000 in current dollars. Some American clients traveled to London at their own expense to have Sargent paint their portrait. Around 1890, Sargent painted two daring non-commissioned portraits as show pieces—one of actress Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth and one of the popular Spanish dancer ""La Carmencita"". Sargent was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and was made a full member three years later. In the 1890s, he averaged fourteen portrait"
"the 1850s, including making paintings from daguerreotypes. Over her career, she also made religious and genre paintings. Some of her paintings are ""Lady Macbeth"" that has been among the collection of the Morris Museum; ""The Fortune Teller""; ""Morning, Noon and Night"" that has been held by the New Britain Museum of American Art, and ""Costume of Charles the Second's Reign"" (1876). Her portraits from this period include in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and one of her portraits of George Washington, which is held at the Harvard Art Museums. A portrait by her of Thomas Jefferson"
"and clad in a clinging nightdress, and, in 1888, a critic noted Ellen Terry was ""the stormy dominant woman of the eleventh century equipped with the capricious emotional subltety of the nineteenth century."" In 1915 and 1918, Sybil Thorndike played the role at Old Vic and then at the Prince's Theatre in 1926. Flora Robson played the role in Tyrone Guthrie's Old Vic production in 1934. In 1955, Vivien Leigh played Lady Macbeth opposite Laurence Olivier at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. In 1977 at The Other Place in Stratford, Judi Dench and Ian McKellen played the infamous husband"
"presented to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1949. Two plaster casts of Terry's hands, were also made, probably by Margaret Winser, who also produced a bust of Ellen Terry based on these posthumous casts. The plaster medallion, death mask and posthumous bust, along with a relief plaque of the Hastings War Memorial that she designed, remain in the collection at Smallhythe Place, which is now a museum run by the National Trust. During her career, Margaret Winser created a large number of memorial plaques, statues and portrait medallions, including one of the violinist Joseph Joachim. Other work included providing"
"of 1890 and at the Murrieta sale two years later. They purchased the whole of the Hainauer collection of Renaissance ""objets d'art"" for about £250,000 in June 1906, and in 1907 the Rodolphe Kann collection of pictures and ""objets d'art"" in Paris for nearly £0.75 million. Duveen became wealthy, and was generous in benefaction of art galleries. He was a subscriber to the public purchase of Velasquez's ""Rokeby Venus"" for the National Gallery in 1906, and in the same year he presented John Singer Sargent's portrait of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, which he bought at the Irving sale at"
"Fanny Fleming Fanny Fleming, afterwards Mrs. Stanley (c. 1796–1861), was an English actress. Fleming was born, according to Oxberry's ""Dramatic Chronology"", 31 October 1796, but more probably four years earlier. She is said to have been a granddaughter of West Digges. In Liverpool and Manchester she played Lady Macbeth, Helen McGregor in Terry's stage adaptation of ""Rob Roy"", and other characters. She married George Stanley, a low comedian, who went to America in October 1834, and there died. Mrs. Stanley's first appearance in London took place at the Lyceum, assumably near the same date. She is chiefly remembered in connection"
"century, a roll call of legendary actors' names all but drown out the plays in which they appear: Sarah Siddons (1755—1831), John Philip Kemble (1757—1823), Henry Irving (1838—1905), and Ellen Terry (1847—1928). To be a star of the legitimate drama came to mean being first and foremost a ""great Shakespeare actor"", with a famous interpretation of, for men, Hamlet, and for women, Lady Macbeth, and especially with a striking delivery of the great soliloquies. The acme of spectacle, star, and soliloquy of Shakespeare performance came with the reign of actor-manager Henry Irving and his co-star Ellen Terry in their elaborately"
"literary works, such as Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queene"" and Alexander Pope's mock-heroic ""The Rape of the Lock"" have been cited as contributing influences as well. Innovations in stage production helped bring these works to the public eye, as the development of gaslight and improvements in wire-work led to increasingly elaborate special effects. Although once described by Douglas Jerrold as ""a fairy creation that could only be acted by fairies"", productions of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" became more common, eventually leading to an 1863 spectacle featuring Ellen Terry as Titania astride a mechanical mushroom. Cultural changes were also an important"
"his encounter with the witches. Irving's leading lady was Ellen Terry, but her Lady Macbeth was unsuccessful with the public, for whom a century of performances influenced by Sarah Siddons had created expectations at odds with Terry's conception of the role. Late nineteenth-century European Macbeths aimed for heroic stature, but at the expense of subtlety: Tommaso Salvini in Italy and Adalbert Matkowsky in Germany were said to inspire awe, but elicited little pity. Two developments changed the nature of ""Macbeth"" performance in the 20th century: first, developments in the craft of acting itself, especially the ideas of Stanislavski and Brecht;"
"Ellen Terry Museum at Smallhythe Place. Edward Henry Gordon Craig (1872–1966) was the son of Ellen Terry and Edward Godwin. After a modest start as an actor, he became a designer, writer and occasional director of modernist theatre, working in many countries. He was more celebrated in continental Europe than in Britain, and his large theatrical library was bought by the French government for the Collection Auguste Rondel. Among his many children by several women including his wife (the actress, Helen Mary (May) Gibson), the violinist Elena Fortuna Meo (1879–1957), the dancer Isadora Duncan and the poet Dorothy Nevile Lees,"
"is a portrait of his young wife, the actress Ellen Terry, who was 30 years his junior – having been introduced by mutual friend Tom Taylor, they married on 20 February 1864, just seven days short of her 17th birthday. When she eloped with another man after less than a year of marriage, Watts was obliged to divorce her. Watts's association with Rossetti and the Aesthetic movement altered during the 1870s, as his work increasingly combined Classical traditions with a deliberately agitated and troubled surface, to suggest the dynamic energies of life and evolution, as well as the tentative and"
"decades, before becoming ever more popular with Romanticism and the works of Sir Walter Scott. Also wearing tartan is Flora MacDonald, painted by Richard Wilson in London after her arrest for helping Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape after the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. Scottish portrait painting flourished in the 18th century and Allan Ramsay and Sir Henry Raeburn are well represented with 13 and 15 works respectively, the former with many paintings of figures from the Scottish Enlightenment, as well as the recently acquired lost portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, and the career of the latter extending into the 19th century"
"from other artists of her time. Mackintosh's most popular works include the gesso panels ""The May Queen"", which was made to partner her panel ""The Wassail"" for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tearooms, and ""Oh ye, all ye that walk in Willowwood"", which formed part of the decorative scheme for the Room de Luxe in the Willow Tearooms. All three of these are now on display in the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow. The 2017-18 restoration of The Willow Tearooms building has seen a recreation of """"Oh ye, all ye that walk in Willowwood"""" installed in the original location within the Room"
"resigned in 1887 following disagreements over costumes for the plays ""Henry VIII"" and ""The Amber Heart"". The latter became the first production on which Carr had primary responsibility for Terry's costumes, though her influence is clear in designs as early as the 1885 production of ""Faust"". Carr and Terry continued working together until 1902, when Terry left the Lyceum Theatre. One of Carr's best-known works is a costume that used beetle wings to create an iridescent effect. The dress was worn by Terry as Lady Macbeth in the Shakespeare play ""Macbeth"". It was designed by Carr and crocheted by dressmaker"
"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 Macbeth-Raeburn Henry Macbeth-Raeburn (born Henry Raeburn Macbeth; 24 September 1860 – 3 December 1947) was a Scottish painter and printmaker. His father was the portrait painter Norman Macbeth and his niece Ann Macbeth. His elder brother Robert Walker Macbeth (1848–1910) was also an artist. He was named after the Scottish portraitist Henry Raeburn, and in later life he changed his surname in devotion to the celebrated portraitist. It was also an advantage to distinguish himself from the many members of his artistic family. Macbeth-Raeburn exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1881 onwards, and was elected ARA in"
"mother's memory at Smallhythe Place, an early 16th-century house that she bought at the turn of the 20th century. The museum was taken over by the National Trust in 1939. Terry's daughter Edith Craig became a theatre director, producer, costume designer, and an early pioneer of the women's suffrage movement in England. Terry's son, Edward Gordon Craig, became an actor, scenery and effects designer, illustrator, and director; he also founded the Gordon Craig School for the Art of the Theatre in Florence, Italy, in 1913. Her grandnephew was the actor John Gielgud. Illustrator Helen Craig is Terry's great granddaughter. Ellen"
"portraits painted by the eminent artist George Frederic Watts. His famous portraits of Terry include ""Choosing"", in which she must select between earthly vanities, symbolised by showy but scentless camellias, and nobler values symbolised by humble-looking but fragrant violets. His other famous portraits of her include ""Ophelia"" and ""Watchman"", and, with Kate, ""The Sisters"". He proposed marriage to Terry in spite of his being three decades her senior. She was impressed with Watts's art and elegant lifestyle, and she wished to please her parents by making an advantageous marriage. She left the stage during the run of Tom Taylor's hit"
"Mitchell; ""Reading the Litany"", ""Sunday Afternoon"", and ""The Sunday School"", by James Scott; ""Refreshment, Sir?"" by W. H. Egleton; and ""The Scoffers"", by Henry Thomas Ryall. Alfred Rankley Alfred Rankley (1819–7 December 1872) was an English painter. Rankley received his art training in the schools of the Royal Academy, and began to exhibit there in 1841, when he sent a scene from Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"". This was followed in 1842 by ""Palamon and Lavinia"", exhibited at the Society of British Artists. In 1843 he sent to the Royal Academy a portrait, in 1844 a scene from ""Othello"", and in 1845 a"
"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"
"drown out the plays in which they appear: Sarah Siddons (1755—1831), John Philip Kemble (1757—1823), Henry Irving (1838—1905), and Ellen Terry (1847—1928). To be a star of the legitimate drama came to mean being first and foremost a ""great Shakespeare actor"", with a famous interpretation of, for men, Hamlet, and for women, Lady Macbeth, and especially with a striking delivery of the great soliloquies. The acme of spectacle, star, and soliloquy Shakespeare performance came with the reign of actor-manager Henry Irving at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in London from 1878–99. At the same time, a revolutionary return to the roots"
"John Steell RSA, acquired by the Royal Scottish Academy, and that of the Rev. Dr. Lindsay Alexander, by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. His portrait of Patrick Don Swan of Springfield is held in Kirkcaldy. Macbeth married Mary Walker, and they had six sons. Three of those Robert Walker Macbeth RA, James Macbeth, and Henry Macbeth-Raeburn RA (1860–1947) were also known as painters, and Allan Macbeth as a musician. Mary Walker Macbeth, a daughter, married Arthur Thomson. Attribution Norman Macbeth Norman Macbeth (Greenock 1821 – 27 February 1888 London) was a Scottish portraitist. He was born at Greenock, where his"
"all her own shopping in Byzantium."" The play was very successful, running for more than six months to packed houses. The costume was reused on many later tours, crossing the Atlantic to visit North America at least twice. The dress was restored in a two-year project that began in 2009 when £50,000 had been raised to pay for the work. In 2011, after 1,300 hours of conservation work and a cost of £110,000, it was placed on display in Ellen Terry's home, Smallhythe Place, near Tenterden in Kent. It has been described by the National Trust as ""one of the"
"is usually on display in Tate Britain, London, in room 1840. ""The Lady of Shalott"" is one of John William Waterhouse's most famous works, an 1888 oil-on-canvas painting of a scene from Tennyson's poem in which the poet describes the plight of a young woman, loosely based on the figure of Elaine of Astolat from medieval Arthurian legend, who yearned with an unrequited love for the knight Sir Lancelot, isolated under an undisclosed curse in a tower near King Arthur's Camelot. Waterhouse painted three different versions of this character, in 1888, 1894 and 1915. The painting has the precisely painted"
"in February 1906, as Lady Gerania in ""Dr Wake's Patient"", in which she subsequently toured. In 1906 she appeared in Arthur Bourchier's production of ""Macbeth"" at the Garrick. Later London appearances were as Lily in ""In the Workhouse"" (1911), Sister Christina in ""The Month of Mary"" (1913), and Spring in ""Godefroi and Yolande"" (1915). She later married Charles Chaplin (not the famous film comedian) with whom she had a son, Michael. By a relationship with the actor Charles Hawtrey she had a son Anthony Hawtrey, who became an actor. She served as the curator of the Ellen Terry Museum after"
"Wildersham in Walter de la Mare's fairy play, ""Crossings"", in November 1925 at the Lyric Hammersmith. In 1922, the University of St Andrews conferred an honorary LLD upon Terry, and in 1925 she was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, only the second actress, after Geneviève Ward, to be created a dame for her professional achievements. In her last years, she gradually lost her eyesight and suffered from senility. Stephen Coleridge anonymously published an annotated volume of his correspondence with Terry, ""The Heart of Ellen Terry"", in 1928. On 21 July 1928, Terry died of"
"notecards. Between 1876 and 1882 she exhibited 11 works at the Royal Society of British Artists and between 1869 and 1894 9 works at the Society of Women Artists. She also had work included in the Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition (1887) and the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1888. She is most famous for her watercolour paintings of local Wakefield scenes including Wakefield Cathedral and Wakefield Chantry Chapel at the turn of the 20th century (1898–1904). Also Sandal Castle painted in 1876 prints of which were donated by the owner to Wakefield City Art Gallery and more recently to the Hepworth Gallery."
"The Triumph of Cleopatra The Triumph of Cleopatra, also known as Cleopatra's Arrival in Cilicia and The Arrival of Cleopatra in Cilicia, is an oil painting by English artist William Etty. It was first exhibited in 1821, and is now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight across the River Mersey from Liverpool. During the 1810s Etty had become widely respected among staff and students at the Royal Academy of Arts, in particular for his use of colour and ability to paint realistic flesh tones. Despite having exhibited at every Summer Exhibition since 1811 he attracted little commercial"
"1922 and full member in 1933. His diploma work, from 1921, was a mezzotint after Raeburn's 1793 portrait of Dr. Nathaniel Spens. In 1936, Macbeth-Raeburn married his second wife, the artist Marjorie May Bacon, in London and shortly afterwards the couple moved to Great Yarmouth. Macbeth-Raeburn died on 3 December 1947 in Great Yarmouth. Henry Macbeth-Raeburn Henry Macbeth-Raeburn (born Henry Raeburn Macbeth; 24 September 1860 – 3 December 1947) was a Scottish painter and printmaker. His father was the portrait painter Norman Macbeth and his niece Ann Macbeth. His elder brother Robert Walker Macbeth (1848–1910) was also an artist. He"
"One of her works, ""A Midsummer Night's Dream at Hampton Court"", was so popular that she ended by painting 5 copies of it; another, ""Little Nell"", she copied 13 times. ""Wonderland"", a painting showing a little girl reading tales from the Brothers Grimm by candlelight, is much reproduced. The English painter Walter Sickert based his oil painting ""She Was the Belle of the Ball [After Adelaide Claxton]"" on one of her works. Claxton earned her living in part through her paintings and in part by selling comic illustrations and satirical drawings of high society to popular magazines like ""Bow Bells"","