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I am no Mother, I am no Bride, I am King

King by Florence + The Machine / Miss Ellen Terry As Lady Macbeth by John Singer Sargent ♕

At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the painter’s subjects and friends, à la mode, could have emerged from the TV show’s second season.

“Fashioned by Sargent” installation view. Far left, ‘‘Beetle Wing Dress’’ for Lady Macbeth. Sargent’s painting of the actress Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, in the shimmering gown (which boasts actual beetle wing cases affixed to its surface), hangs nearby. The dress was created by Alice Laura Comyns-Carr. Credit...Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

If his portraiture approached theater, Sargent also had a way of turning moments from the stage into images richly steeped in the history of painting. His painting of the actress Ellen Terry in the role of Lady Macbeth, which she played to great acclaim at London’s Lyceum Theatre in 1888, recasts her as a Pre-Raphaelite heroine with long red plaits and a shimmering blue and green gown known as the “Beetle Wing Dress” (which boasts elaborate draped sleeves and actual beetle wing cases affixed to its surface). The costume, made by the designer Alice Comyns-Carr in collaboration with Terry and the dressmaker Ada Nettleship, is exhibited alongside the painting and may be the show’s most spectacular garment.

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John Singer Sargent - Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889)

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