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ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1820-30
Lady Susan Lygon, née Eliot, Countess Beauchamp (1797-1835), in off-the-shoulder black dress, yellow shawl, red curtain background
on ivory
rectangular, 1½ in. (38 mm.) x 1¼ in. (32 mm.), gilt-metal frame with engraved foliate surround
Lady Susan Lygon, née Eliot, Countess Beauchamp (1797-1835), in off-the-shoulder black dress, yellow shawl, red curtain background
on ivory
rectangular, 1½ in. (38 mm.) x 1¼ in. (32 mm.), gilt-metal frame with engraved foliate surround
ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1820-30
Lady Susan Lygon, née Eliot, Countess Beauchamp (1797-1835), in off-the-shoulder black dress, yellow shawl, red curtain background
on ivory
rectangular, 1½ in. (38 mm.) x 1¼ in. (32 mm.), gilt-metal frame with engraved foliate surround
Lady Susan Lygon, née Eliot, Countess Beauchamp (1797-1835), in off-the-shoulder black dress, yellow shawl, red curtain background
on ivory
rectangular, 1½ in. (38 mm.) x 1¼ in. (32 mm.), gilt-metal frame with engraved foliate surround
J. Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, Cardiff, 1962, vol. II, p. 131, no. 65
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Specialist note
Lady Susan Lygon, née Eliot, Countess Beauchamp, married General Henry Beauchamp Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp, in 1824 and had six children.