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A Zoffany for England
14/2/24 - Acquisition - Londres, Tate Britain - Actor Robert Baddeley played the stereotypical Jewish loan shark in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play The School for Scandal . Presented in 1777 at the Royal Theatre in Drury Lane, it tells the story of two brothers, Joseph and Charles Surface, who are courting the same young girl, Maria. The jealous and gossipy Lady Sneerwell, who would like to marry Charles, is spreading rumours. Meanwhile, Sir Oliver, the two young men’s uncle, whom they have not seen for years, pays them an incognito visit to get a better idea of their qualities and faults, and decide which of them will inherit his fortune. It turns out that one is a hypocritical philanthropist and the other a young libertine.
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- Johann Zoffany (1733-1810)
Robert Baddeley…
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