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Description: | The sitter, Helena Saville Faucit (1817-1898), afterwards Lady Martin, was the daughter of an actor of the Margate Company. She was an actress known on the stage as Helen Faucit who played many Shakespearian roles between 1833 and 1866 when she retired from the stage. She emerged from retirement specially to play Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, the play with which the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opened its doors in 1879. The marble pulpit in the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford upon Avon, given in her memory by her husband, has upon it a figure, among others, of St Helen, which is a portrait of her. Helen Faucit retired in 1871 and so this portrait of a year later was not of a specific performance. | Subjects: | Helen) portrait (Faucit | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Lehmann, Wilhelm Auguste Rudolf (German painter, 1819-1905) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8472... | Go to resource |
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