Adelaide Kemble
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Adelaide Kemble (November 1815 – August 4, 1879), the second daughter of Charles Kemble, was an opera singer of great promise, whose first London appearance was made in Norma on November 2, 1841.
In 1843 she married Edward John Sartoris, a rich Italian, and retired after a brief but brilliant career. She wrote A Week in a French Country House (1867), a bright and humorous story, and of a literary quality not shared by other tales that followed. Her son, Algernon Charles Sartoris, married General Ulysses S. Grant's daughter. The young Frederic Leighton (painter of "Flaming June" and President of the British Royal Academy of Art from 1878 to his death in 1895) was introduced to her circle in Rome, and greatly influenced by her in many respects, most evident, perhaps, in social and musical areas. Her soirees surely were an inspiration for his famous, annual "Leighton Musics" later in the great Victorian painter's career, held in his home (now Leighton House) in London. Mrs. Sartoris and the younger artist maintained a close friendship for the rest of her life.
Reference for Leighton connection, among many others: E. Barrington, The Life, Letters, and Work of Frederic Leighton. 1896