William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… organized for them. His first wife Catherine organized concerts, and his second wife Emma performed her Attitudes and danced the tarantella in front of assembled guests. In another set of performances, young boys splashed naked in the waters in front of his villa. People > Aristocracy People > Travel Mots-clés Dance Diplomacy Entertainement Grand Tour Italy Travel As British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples, Sir William … which character she was performing, and later wrote letters back home about these performances. On other evenings, Emma danced the tarantella, a dance adapted from local Neapolitan practices. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 'Portrait of …
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