Portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb

Portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb
ArtistThomas Phillips
Year1813
TypeOil on canvas, portrait painting
LocationChatsworth 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

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

Bibliography

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  • Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography. Springer, 2015.
  • Eckert, Lindsey. The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers. Rutgers University Press, 2022.
  • Fraser, Antonia. Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit. Simon and Schuster, 2023.
  • Priestley, John Boynton. The Prince of Pleasure and His Regency, 1811-20. Harper & Row, 1969.
  • Shears Jonathon & Rawes, Alan. The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron. Oxford University Press, 2024.
  • Simon, Robin. The Portrait in Britain and America. G.K. Hall, 1987.
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