books0977:Kitty Stephens, playing a harp lute (early 19th century). George Henry Harlow (English, 17
books0977:Kitty Stephens, playing a harp lute (early 19th century). George Henry Harlow (English, 1787-1819). Oil on canvas.Stephens (later Countess of Essex, 1794-1882) made her Covent Garden début as Mandane in Arne’s Atraxerxes (the first attempt to set a full-blown opera seria libretto in English) on 23 September 1813 and the great success with which she was received invited comparison with Angelica Cantalani and Elizabeth Billington. -- source link
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