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Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children
Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children (1779) is an oil on canvas portrait by Joshua Reynolds. It was given to the National Gallery of Art in 1937. The NGA describes the work as a "majestic group portrait".
Born Lady Elizabeth Howard (1746-1813).
Lady Elizabeth (Howard) Delmé was the third daughter of the 4th Earl of Carlisle, and sat for Reynolds with her children John and Isabella Elizabeth in April and June 1777. Reynolds was the
world a better place.
Her life.
Lady Elizabeth Howard (1746-June 1813), married twice, first on 16 Feb 1769 to Peter Delme, M.P. (1748-1789), and secondly on 13 January 1794 to Capt. Charles Garnier, R.N., (d.1796 by drowning).
Ruvigny described Lady Elizabeth as "the beauty of the Court of Queen Charlotte".
References.
- NGA: "Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children"
- "British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries