Portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb | |
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Artist | Thomas Phillips |
Year | 1813 |
Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
Location | Chatsworth House, Derbyshire |
Portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Phillips, from 1813. [1] [2] [3] It depicts the Anglo-Irish aristocrat and author Lady Caroline Lamb, the wife of the future Prime Minister Lord Melbourne and lover of the poet Lord Byron. Unusually she is dressed as a page boy carrying a platter of fruit. [4]
Phillips also painter her estranged lover Byron in twice, including his Lord Byron in Albanian Dress . [5] Today the painting of Lady Caroline is in the collection of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.