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Charles Spencer Cowper

(1816-1879), Son of 5th Earl Cowper

Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry

Sitter in 2 portraits

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Charles Spencer Cowper, by Alfred, Count D'Orsay - NPG 4026(16)

Charles Spencer Cowper

by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
pencil, chalk and stump, 1845
NPG 4026(16)

Charles Spencer Cowper, by Richard James Lane, after  Alfred, Count D'Orsay - NPG D46302

Charles Spencer Cowper

by Richard James Lane, after Alfred, Count D'Orsay
lithograph, (26 October 1845)
NPG D46302

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Gill Danis

17 July 2017, 15:43

Complicated: Cowper was painted by the Count d'Orsay, and after Orsay's death (1852) Cowper married Orsay's widow, Lady Harriet Anne Jane Frances Gardiner. However the Orsay marriage had been a strange one, undertaken when the bride was 15, as a cover for the fact that Orsay was her stepmother's lover. The stepmother in question was Marguerite, Countess Blessington.