David Garrick and George Anne Bellamy as Romeo and Juliet at Juliet's Tomb (from William...

Benjamin Wilson (Leeds 1721 – London 1788). Oil painting on canvas, David Garrick and George Anne Bellamy as Romeo and Juliet at Juliet's Tomb (from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act V scene iii) by Benjamin Wilson (Leeds 1721 - London 1788), 1757. The picture illustrates the moment in Garrick's adaption of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', V. iii. when Juliet awakes. Through an arched building in a well-lit chamber Juliet, swathed in white garments, is seen sitting up from the stone floor as Romeo approaches from the outside in the centre foreground. To the right is a moonlit sky. A superior version is at the Yale Center for British Art. Stourhead, Wiltshire (Accredited Museum)