Marie Tussaud
1760–1850
German-born artist who assisted her uncle in his "Cabinet de Cire" at the Palais Royal, Paris. Modelled heads of the victims of the Terror during the French Revolution. Separated from her husband in 1800 and settled in England, transferring her wax-work collection to the Lyceum, Strand, 1802, later to Blackheath, and finally to Baker Street.
Source
DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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