Portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb

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Portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb
Portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb (Phillips).jpg
Artist Thomas Phillips
Year1813
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.

References

  1. Douglass p.vii
  2. Priestley p.6
  3. Simon p.28
  4. Eckert p.78
  5. Shears & Rawes p.497

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