William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… wife, Lady Catherine (1738-1782). She was an accomplished musician, particularly of the harpsichord, which she is shown playing in a portrait of the couple painted in 1770. Image Legend Allen, David, ‘Sir William and the first Lady Hamilton … he and his then fourteen-year old son were welcomed to the Hamiltons’ home and that Catherine had ‘trembled at having to play before Wolfgang’. 5 Catherine also had her own circle of friends, with whom she organized events, for instance a … provided for most viewers enough of a counterpoint to render it acceptable for the wife of the English ambassador to display her body in such a way. In Sir William’s drawing room, then, people assembled to watch the Attitudes , react to …
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