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— Lord Byron, from “To the Countess of Blessington.”
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Unknown / Down In A Hole - Alice In Chains / Devil In Me - Halsey / To the Countess of Blessington - Lord Byron / The Lament for Icarus - Herbert James Draper / Angel On Fire - Halsey / Cocoa Hooves - Dave Bayley / Bloodsport, “When Rome Falls” - Yves Olade / Stone Milk, “The Myth of Medea” - Anne Stevenson
#parallels#web weaving#down in a hole#alice in chains#devil in me#halsey#to the countess of blessington#lord byron#the lament for icarus#herbert james draper#angel on fire#cocoa hooves#dave bayley#flight of icarus#icarus#icarus and the sun#yves olade#anne stevenson#art#literature#comparatives
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Margaret, Countess of Blessington, Kehinde Wiley, 2018
#Margaret countess of blessington#kehinde wiley#wiley#2018#2010s#2000s#21st century#portrait#painting#art#contemporary#contemporary art
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It’s 1841:
First row: 1841 Honourable Julia Henrietta Anson (1819-1866), Lady Brooke by Alfred Tidey (Royal Collection). From pinterest.com/msnelly1/romantic-era-dresses/ 854X1134 @72 1.3Mj.
Second row left: 1841 Karolina Lizius by Joseph Karl Stieler (Schönheitengallerie, Schloss Nymphenburg - München, Bayern, Germany). From Wikimedia 2077X2493 @96 1.5Mj.
Second row right: 1841 Katerina Rosa Botzaris by Joseph Karl Stieler (Schönheitengallerie, Schloss Nymphenburg - München, Bayern, Germany). Probably from Wikimedia 1694X2197 @72 1Mj. According to rrayedingold.blogspot.com/2011/11/gallery-of-beauties.html “Katharina was Greek beauty from Janina. Her father was a Greek freedom fighter named Markos Botzaris. He died in battle against the Ottoman Turks in 1820. Katharina's brother, Demetrius, was educated in Munich, and was an aide and war minister of King Otto I of Greece. Katharina became lady-in-waiting to Queen Amalie of Greece, and married Prince George Karadjas in 1845, a general in the Greek army. In 1841, Amalie, Otto, and their aides visited King Ludwig in Munich. While Amalie was climbing out of her carriage in Munich, Ludwig spotted Katharina assisting her. Both Otto and Amalie suggested Katharina for the Gallery of Beauties, and Ludwig agreed. She was portrayed here wearing the traditional Greek costume.”
Third row: 1841 Königin Therese von Bayern by Heinrich Wilhelm Vogel after Joseph Karl Stieler (Schloss Nymphenburg - München, Bayern, Germany), From Wikimedia; expanded to fit screen 1141X1400 @300 375kj.
Fourth row: 1841 Lady by Apollon Mokritsky (Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts - Kaluga, Kaluga Oblast, Russia). From Wikimedia 87)X1130 @96 279kj. There is considerable artistic talent practicing in Russia.
Fifth row left: 1841 Lithograph of Victoria Duchess of Kent by Pierre Émile Desmaisons (British Museum). From their Web site 2001X2500 @300 1.1Mj.
Fifth row right: 1841 Maguerite, Countess of Blessington by Alfred, Count d'Orsay (location ?). From hhistoryandotherthoughts.blogspot.com/2013/12; enlarged to fit screen 2284X2876 @144 6.8Mp.
Sixth row: 1841 Louise Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle d'Orléans, reine des Belges by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon - Versailles, Île-de-France, France) From WikiArt 1226X1500 @72 433kj.
#early Victorian fashion#Romantic era fashion#1841 fashion#1840s fashion#Julia Henrietta Anson#Lady Brooke#Alfred Tidey#Karolina Lizius#Katerina Rosa Botzaris#Joseph Karl Stieler#Schönheitengallerie#Greek dress#Therese von Bayern#Heinrich Wilhelm Vogel#Apollon Mokritsky#Duchess Victoria of Kent#Pierre Émile Desmaisons#Maguerite Countess of Blessington#Alfred Count d'Orsay#Louise Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle d'Orléans#Franz Xaver Winterhalter#off shoulder neckline#Vneckline#pleated bertha#hat#modesty piece#high neckline#lace collar#full skirt
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Margaret, Countess of Blessington painted by Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830)
#art#art history#artwork#culture#curators#history#museums#painting#romanticism#vintage#thomas lawrence
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Sir Thomas LAWRENCE,
Margaret, Countess of Blessington
1822
Oil on canvas, 91 x 67 cm
Wallace Collection, London
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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY
based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … April 2
1805 – Born: Hans Christian Andersen, often referred to using the initials H. C. (d.1875). Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", and "The Ugly Duckling".
During his lifetime he was acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide, and was feted by royalty. His poetry and stories have been translated into more than 150 languages. They have inspired motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films.
Hans Christian Andersen was born in the town of Odense, Denmark. The family was associated with Danish royalty, through employment or trade. Whatever the reason, King Frederick VI took a personal interest in him as a youth and paid for a part of his education. Later, Hans Christian was forced to support himself. He worked as a weaver's apprentice and, later, for a tailor. At 14, he moved to Copenhagen to seek employment as an actor. Having an excellent soprano voice, he was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre, but his voice soon changed, and he began to focus on writing instead.
Jonas Collin, who, following a chance encounter with Andersen, immediately felt a great affection for him, sent him to a grammar school in Slagelse, covering all his expenses. Andersen had already published his first story, The Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave, in 1822. Though not a keen student, he also attended school at Elsinore until 1827.
He later said his years in school were the darkest and most bitter of his life. At one school, he lived at his schoolmaster's home. There he was abused in order "to improve his character", he was told. He later said the faculty had discouraged him from writing in general, causing him to enter a state of depression.
In 1833 he received a small traveling grant from the King, enabling him to set out on the first of many journeys through Europe.
It was during 1835 that Andersen published the first installment of his immortal Fairy Tales. More stories, completing the first volume, were published in 1836 and 1837. The quality of these stories was not immediately recognized, and they sold poorly.
His true genius was however proved in the miscellany the Picture-Book without Pictures (1840). The fame of his fairy tales had grown steadily; a second series began in 1838 and a third in 1845. Andersen was now celebrated throughout Europe, although his native Denmark still showed some resistance.
In June 1847, Andersen paid his first visit to England and enjoyed social success. The Countess of Blessington invited him to her parties where intellectual and famous people could meet, and it was at one party that he met Charles Dickens for the first time. They shook hands and walked to the veranda, much joy to Andersen, and he wrote of it in his diary.
In Andersen's early life, his private journal records his failure to have sexual relations. Andersen often fell in love with unattainable women. The most famous of these was the opera soprano Jenny Lind. One of his stories, "The Nightingale", was a written expression of his passion for Lind, and became the inspiration for her nickname, the "Swedish Nightingale". Andersen was often shy around women and had extreme difficulty in proposing to Lind. When Lind was boarding a train to take her to an opera concert, Andersen gave Lind a letter of proposal. Her feelings towards him were not the same; she saw him as a brother, writing to him in 1844 "farewell... God bless and protect my brother is the sincere wish of his affectionate sister, Jen."
Just as with his interest in women, Andersen would become attracted to non-reciprocating men. For example, Andersen wrote to Edvard Collin:
"I languish for you as for a pretty Calabrian wench... my sentiments for you are those of a woman. The femininity of my nature and our friendship must remain a mystery."
Collin, who did not prefer men, wrote in his own memoir: "I found myself unable to respond to this love, and this caused the author much suffering." Likewise, the infatuations of the author for the Danish dancer Harald Scharff and Carl Alexander, the young hereditary duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, did not result in any relationships.
In the spring of 1872, Andersen fell out of his bed and was severely hurt. He never fully recovered, but he lived until August 4, 1875. Shortly before his death, he had consulted a composer about the music for his funeral, saying: "Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with little steps." At the time of his death, he was an internationally renowned and treasured artist. He was receiving a stipend from the Danish Government as a "national treasure".
1905 – Serge Lifar, Russian dancer, born (d.1986); Lifar was the last of Diaghilev's dancer- lovers. He used his looks, charisma and talent, fuelled by his fierce ambition to become one of the greatest dancers and choreographers of the 20th century.
Some say that Diaghilev was instantly drawn to the handsome 18 year-old dancer, others suggest that Lifar made sure Diaghilev noticed him. One slight fault had to be corrected before the 'honeymoon' - and before the stardom that 'marriage brought'. "Don't sit in the sun. The paraffin will melt," his colleagues teased. But the nose job had its intended results. Lifar, just twenty, became the lead dancer of the Ballet Russes and Diaghilev's lover, as well. His charm, persistance, whatever, paid off and he joined the list of Diaghilev star dancers/lovers in the footsteps of Nijinsky, Leonide Massine & Anton Dolin. This meant he was cast in leading roles and encouraged to choreograph, as Diaghilev had done before.
He was at Diaghilev's bedside when he died in 1929, but the maestro's death left the Ballet Russes in chaos. However, Lifar was invited to star in a production at the Paris Opera Ballet, to be choreographed by George Balanchine, but his illness saw Lifar taking his place and he successfully went on to become ballet master and director of the Paris Opera Ballet until 1957 - although he was accused of collaborating with the German High Command during the Occupation of Paris and banished between 1944 and 1947.
He remained a major figure in international ballet for the rest of his life and was, with Boris Kochno, Diaghilev's last love, the last of the line from the great Diaghilev. He died in Switzerland in 1986.
1914 – Sir Alec Guinness, English actor (d.2000); Guinness married the artist, playwright, and actress, Merula Salaman in 1938, and they had a son in 1940, Matthew Guinness, who later became an actor.
In his biography of the actor, Alec Guinness: The Unknown, Garry O'Connor reveals that Guinness was arrested and fined 10 guineas for a homosexual act in a public lavatory in Liverpool in 1946. Guinness avoided publicity by giving his name as Herbert Pocket to both police and court. The name Herbert Pocket was taken from the character in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations that Guinness had played on stage in 1939 and was also about to play in the film adaptation. The incident did not become public knowledge until April 2001, eight months after his death.
The authenticity of this incident has been doubted, however, including by Piers Paul Read, Guinness's official biographer, who believes that Guinness was mixed up with John Gielgud, who was infamously arrested for such an act at the same period of time, though Read nonetheless acknowledges Guinness's essential bisexuality.
1945 – Linda Hunt, is an American film, stage and television actress known for her role as Henrietta Lange in the CBS series NCIS: Los Angeles. After making her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye (1980), Hunt portrayed the male character Billy Kwan, her breakthrough performance, in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). Her role as Billy Kwan earned her an Academy Award, an Australian Film Institute Award, a Golden Globe nomination and various other awards.
She has had great success in films such as The Bostonians (1984), Dune (1984), Silverado (1985), Eleni (1985), Waiting for the Moon (1987), The Relic (1997), Dragonfly (2002), Yours Mine and Ours (2005) and Stranger Than Fiction (2006).
Hunt has also had a successful television career. From 1997 to 2002, Hunt played the recurring role of Judge Zoey Hiller on The Practice. She currently plays Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange on the CBS television series NCIS Los Angeles, a role she has played since its debut in 2009. The role earned her a Teen Choice Award nomination in 2011. She is also the narrator in the God of War video game franchise.
Hunt is is 4 feet 9 inches (1.45 m) tall. In high school, she was diagnosed as having hypopituitary dwarfism. She does not have Turner Syndrome as some blogs have stated.
Hunt is openly lesbian, and since 1987 has lived in Los Angeles with her wife Karen Klein, whom she married in 2008.
1952 – David M. Halperin is an American theorist in the fields of gender studies, queer theory, critical theory, material culture and visual culture. He is the cofounder of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and author of several books including Before Pastoral (1983) and One Hundred Years of Homosexuality (1990).
Halperin is openly gay. In 1990, he launched a campaign to oppose the presence of the ROTC on the MIT campus, on the grounds that it discriminated against gay and lesbian students. That same year, he received death threats for his gay activism. In 1992, he was accused of sexually harassing a male assistant professor, Theoharis C. Theoharis, in his department at MIT. In 2003, the Michigan chapter of the American Family Association tried to ban his course entitled 'How to Be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation.' In 2010, he wrote an open letter to Michigan's 52nd Attorney General Mike Cox to denounce the homophobic harassment by one of the latter's staffers, Andrew Shirvell, of a University of Michigan student, Chris Armstrong.
Halperin uses the method of genealogy to study the history of homosexuality. He argues that Aristophanes' speech in Plato's Symposium does not indicate a "taxonomy" of heterosexuals and homosexuals comparable to modern ones. According to Simon LeVay, Halperin believes that "Aristophanes did not recognize a category of homosexual people, but only the separate categories of men-loving men and women-loving women" and that he "divided men-loving men into two independent 'sexualities' - the love of youths for adult men and the love of adult men for youths."
1952 – A New York court dismisses the disorderly conduct charge of a man who asked an undercover police officer to go to his apartment for "fun."
1954 – Walter Gibbons (d.1994) was an American record producer, early disco DJ and remixer.
Aside from being gay, Walter Gibbons was unlike most DJs at disco’s dawn. Born April 2, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York, he was slight, introverted and Irish-American when his rivals were outgoing and black or Italian-American.
Long before he got his own first big break at Galaxy 21 in 1975, Gibbons made things happen for himself. In 1972, at age 18, he met his first lover Rich Flores, and the pair lived together with an acetate lathe that made possible their own acetate label, Melting Pot Sound, which bootlegged the underground club jams of the early ’70s. By the time Galaxy 21 – an afterhours Chelsea club at 256 West 23rd Street – opened in August 1975, he’d broken up with Flores, and was more than ready for Manhattan.
Fellow Galaxy 21 DJ Joey Madonia – who later became Levan’s lover and lighting man – describes the multi-floored main room as a simple, unadorned space: Nothing distracted from the lighting and music. You couldn’t even tell it was a club from the outside.
He was an important part of the early 1970s New York City disco underground scene, influencing garage and house music DJs like Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan. He also laid the foundations for early 1980s experimental Chicago house music. One of the early pioneers of beat-mixing, and known for considerably more skillful mixing than many better-known DJs at the time, he is cited by many early pioneers of the house-music scene as an influence. His "Disco Blend" remix of Double Exposure's "Ten Percent" was once described by UK DJ Ashley Beedle as providing a "blueprint for house music".
Gibbons was known as "the DJ's DJ" because his peers would go out of their way to hear him play. Kool DJ Herc brought Dub to the New York City music scene, where Gibbons and other remixers played it and applied dub techniques to dance music. He played disco songs, focusing more on the percussion than the melody, and "stretched out the grooves so much that they teetered on the edge of motionlessness." Like Arthur Russell, who recorded with him, Gibbons "used dub as a dislocating device, preventing disco's simple groove from developing under the dancers' feet."
Gibbons became a reborn Christian in the 1980s, but still managed to turn out cutting edge mixes during this period (he simply focused on songs and lyrics that did not offend his beliefs). He died of AIDS-related symptoms in 1994.
1961 – Christopher Meloni is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for its first 12 seasons and its spin-off Law & Order: Organized Crime, and as inmate Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz. In June 2012, he returned to HBO as the vampire Roman on the main cast of True Blood for the series' fifth season. Meloni also starred in and executive produced the Syfy series Happy! from 2017 to 2019. His films include Man of Steel, Wet Hot American Summer, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, 12 Monkeys, Runaway Bride, 42, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Meloni was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest of three children of Cecile (née Chagnon), a homemaker, and Charles Robert Meloni (1927–2012), an endocrinologist. His maternal ancestry is French Canadian, and he is a descendant of Matthias Farnsworth. His paternal ancestry is Italian, with roots in Velva [it],in the municipality of the town Castiglione Chiavarese, (province of Genoa, in the region of Liguria.)
Meloni worked as a construction worker prior to getting his acting break. He has also worked as a bouncer, bartender, and personal trainer. Meloni worked his way up the acting ladder with commercials, short-lived TV series, and bit parts in a number of films. His first noticeable role was the hotheaded son of a Mafia don in the 1996 thriller Bound. He appeared as Robbie Sinclair's friend Spike in Dinosaurs in the early 1990s. He played criminal Jimmy Liery in eight episodes of NYPD Blue during 1996-1997 and the fiancé of Julia Roberts's character in the 1999 romantic comedy Runaway Bride.
From 1998 to 2003, Meloni portrayed the bisexual criminal Chris Keller on the HBO series Oz with its famous nude scene.
Meloni has appeared in many public service announcements in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues. In 1999, Meloni jokingly kissed Lee Tergesen (who played Tobias Beecher, Meloni's on-screen boyfriend on Oz) at an awards dinner for GLAAD. In 2006, Meloni was given the Human Rights Campaign's Equality Award, along with actor Jake Gyllenhaal and director Ang Lee, for his work on behalf of LGBT issues. In addition, in 2011, Meloni appeared in the Human Rights Campaign's "New Yorkers for Marriage Equality" video. Meloni was included in the 2006 edition of People magazine's Sexiest Men Alive.
2013 – Uruguay senate approves same-sex marriage by a vote of 23-8, becoming the fourteenth country in the world to legalize marriage equality.
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From Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington (1834; taken from her earlier collected diaries) — Byron talking about Percy and Mary Shelley:
“On looking out from the balcony this morning with Byron, I observed his countenance change, and an expression of deep sadness steal over it. After a few minutes' silence he pointed out to me a boat anchored to the right, as the one in which his friend Shelley went down, and he said the sight of it made him ill.—‘You should have known Shelley,’ said Byron, ‘to feel how much I must regret him. He was the most gentle, most amiable, and least worldly-minded person I ever met; full of delicacy, disinterested beyond all other men, and possessing a degree of genius, joined to a simplicity, as rare as it is admirable. He had formed to himself a beau idéal of all that is fine, high-minded, and noble, and he acted up to this ideal even to the very letter. He had a most brilliant imagination, but a total want of worldly-wisdom. I have seen nothing like him, and never shall again, I am certain. I never can forget the night that his poor wife rushed into my room at Pisa, with a face pale as marble, and terror impressed on her brow, demanding, with all the tragic impetuosity of grief and alarm, where was her husband! Vain were all our efforts to calm her; a desperate sort of courage seemed to give her energy to confront the horrible truth that awaited her; it was the courage of despair. I have seen nothing in tragedy on the stage so powerful, or so affecting, as her appearance, and it often presents itself to my memory. I knew nothing then of the catastrophe, but the vividness of her terror communicated itself to me, and I feared the worst, which fears were, alas! too soon fearfully realized. Mrs. Shelley is very clever, indeed it would be difficult for her not to be so; the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and Godwin, and the wife of Shelley, could be no common person.”
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Vol. 2 — Mary describing the night she learned that Percy was lost at sea and went to Byron’s place — interestingly, she mentions details that Byron later recounted to Lady Blessington, giving credence to Blessington’s recollections, despite Blessington’s many other fabrications (including slander against Mary due to her own personal biases):
“Both Lord Byron and the lady have told me since, that on that terrific evening I looked more like a ghost than a woman—light seemed to emanate from my features; my face was very white; I looked like marble. Alas!”
#geneva squad#percy shelley#percy bysshe shelley#mary shelley#lord byron#lady blessington#regency era#romantic period#romanticism#romantic poetry#history#byron#shelley#literary history#literature
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Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830, British) ~ Margaret, Countess of Blessington, 1822
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Margaret, Countess of Blessington painted by Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830)
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#OTD in Irish History | 1 September (Meán Fómhair):
1737 – Launch of the Belfast News Letter, now the oldest surviving newspaper in Ireland or Britain, and one of the oldest in the world.
1729 – Death of dramatist, essayist and publisher Sir Richard Steele, the Dubliner who founded The Tatler and The Spectator.
1789 – Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner, Countess of Blessington; author, is born near Clonmel, Co Tipperary.
1814 – Birth of James…
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#irelandinspires#irishhistory#OTD#1 September#Blanket protests#Great Dublin Lockout#History#History of Ireland#Ireland#Irish Civil War#Irish History#Isaac Butt#John Redmond#Roger Casement#The Troubles#Today in Irish History#Westport#Wild Colonial Boy
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I was thumbing through my book collection looking for new inspiration & found my Victorian antecedent.
IT ME.
Not pictured:
- half empty bottle of rosé
- vape
- unanswered HER notifications
- leaning tower of nightstand books
- suits
Dolorinda, from Heath’s Book of Beauty, 1838, edited by Countess Blessington.
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The marks I left on track will stay until time and rain will wash them away
Sebastian, no amount of time and rain could ever wash away the marks you left on the sport, and on those lucky enough to know you.
Coffee Shop Soundtrack - All Time Low / Six of Wands and The Fool - unhelpfultarot / To the Countess of Blessington - Lord Byron / Judgement and Justice reversed - unhelpfultarot / Franz Kafka - Letters to Milena
#I'm really proud of how the first picture turned out#its honestly my favorite thing that sebs name is right above michaels on the trophy#sebastian vettel#f1
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Countess Blessington (1822) - Thomas Lawrence
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"We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched."
— Lord Byron, from A Journal Of The Conversations of Lord Byron With Countess Of Blessington (1834)
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1. Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) "Lady Maria Conyngham" (c. 1824-1825) Oil on canvas Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States
2. Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830, British) ~ Julia, Lady Peel, 1827
3. Sir Thomas Lawrence - Princess Lieven 1812–20
4. Sir Thomas Lawrence (English, 1769-1830) Lady Selina Meade, 1819
5. Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830, British) ~ Margaret, Countess of Blessington, 1822
6. Thomas Lawrence - Portrait of Mary Anne Bloxamab. 1824-1825 (later Mrs. Frederick H. Hemming)
7. 1825 Thomas Lawrence - Portrait of Caroline Ferdinande of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry
8. 1828 Sir Thomas Lawrence - Portrait of the Honorable Mrs. Seymour Bathurst
9. Elizabeth Horsley Palmer neé Belli by Sir Thomas Lawrence
10. 1827 Sir Thomas Lawrence - Miss Rosamond Croker
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