Here she had resumed her travels despite being allowed back to Paris. But that quality was completely absent from the immediacy and directness of her sketches of friends. Jane remarried the following year, in Brighton. Her second husband was another singer, William Pardy Lacy β , and she continued to perform under the name Mme Bianchi-Lacy.
Another child would play a crucial role in identifying the portrait of her half-sister: she was baptized at St Marylebone Angelica Elisabeth Lacy β , quite possibly after La Catalani. Angelica herself would have a distinguished performing career as a singer and pianist. The Musical Library April , p. An international career followed, taking her to Vienna, where 15 May Liszt played at a concert she gave.
Soon after she moved to Clifton, Bristol, where she remained until her death in her name appears as Angela, Countess Rothkirch in the registers and census that year. It appeared at auction in Somerset in August. Were those claims validated by the current show? That will take time to answer fully. That question is easier to answer: very well indeed.
Directional light can throw up occlusions in glass with shadows appearing as blemishes on surface and can highlight surface imperfections, but few troublesome examples were evident. There are two approaches to organising monographic exhibitions of this kind.
This exhibition firmly establishes its scholarly credentials with the latter approach. The show adds an excellent range of didactic and contextual aids. Everyone knows that borrowing pastels from major collections is next to impossible, for conservation reasons some of us continue to think are valid by way of disclosure, I did not lend for this reason , so it is inevitable that a Perronneau show will omit some of his greatest work.
