Madame with a wax museum
Else clues• A woman who made wax statues, too, so we hear (7)
• Big name in wax
• Madame of wax museums
• French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models
• In 1835 she opened a permanent waxworks exhibition in London (1761-1850)