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Life Study of Lady Hamilton as the Cumaean Sybil The Met Credit Line:Private collection Emma Hamilton (1765–1815) rose from the lowest rank of society to the peak of distinction by marrying, in 1791, Sir William Hamilton, English ambassador to Naples. There she was famous for her “attitudes”—tableaux vivants performed before swooning audiences who felt themselves transported back to antiquity. Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun, Vigee Le Brun, Emma Hamilton, Jean Antoine Watteau, Kat Williams, George Romney, Lady Hamilton, Female Painters, Susan Sontag

Emma Hamilton (1765–1815) rose from the lowest rank of society to the peak of distinction by marrying, in 1791, Sir William Hamilton, English ambassador to Naples. There she was famous for her “attitudes”—tableaux vivants performed before swooning audiences who felt themselves transported back to antiquity

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