Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… whom she considered ‘one of the glories of our sex’ ( Souvenirs , 358). She enjoyed being seen with Kauffmann at the opera and finding herself seated beside the artist at official receptions. Although she socialised with other French … evenings (663) during which music was prominently featured, including performances from the two prima donnas of the Opera, Elizabeth Billington and Giuseppina Grassini, and the famous violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti, a favourite in …
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