The Library at Strawberry Hill, c. 1790. Photo: The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
LONDON
.- Last October London Art Week introduced a new series of interim online events: Art History in Focus. Another impressive line-up of insightful and lively talks will be taking place this March.
16 March The Female Artists, Actresses, and Playwrights of Strawberry Hill Theatricals
This webinar will explore the role of female artists, actresses, and playwrights involved with theatre at Horace Walpoles Strawberry Hill; present illustrations of Walpoles scandalous gothic play The Mysterious Mother by the artist Diana Beauclerk and the closet built to house them at Strawberry Hill and will also touch on Walpoles literary executor Mary Berrys play Fashionable Friends, performed at Strawberry Hill with sets designed by her sister Agnes and with herself and the sculptor Anne Damer in the leading roles. Damer had a close relationship with the famous actress Eliza Farren, re