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BODELWYDDAN CASTLE Ladies Drawing Room | Portraits on display The portraits in the room are
principally of women. Above the fireplace is Clara Novello, a noted soprano and the daughter
of Vincent and, opposite, a full-length of the Lindsay sisters. The men are such as would
have been happily accommodated into such genteel company. The
fashionable dandy and artist, Count D'Orsay, is shown in Sir
George Hayter's portrait of 1839 while a portrait of the composer
and flautist, Charles
Nicholson, continues the musical theme. Two alcoves, protected
from the light by curtains, allow for the display of delicate
watercolours. They include portraits of women who made their
mark on the wider world: the writer and novelist, Frances Trollope; the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Angela Burdett-Coutts, who put her enormous
wealth and energy to the service of social and philanthropic
causes, and an early portrait of Florence Nightingale, the great reformer of
hospital nursing, seated beside her sister Frances. Sarah Austin Marguerite, Countess of Blessington Elizabeth Barrett Browning Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baroness
Burdett-Coutts Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler Alfred, Count D'Orsay Mary Ann Everett Green William Holman Hunt Helena Saville, Lady Martin Harriet Martineau Sydney, Lady Morgan Ann Mary Newton (née Severn) Charles Nicholson Clara Novello Mary Ann Paton Adelaide Ann Procter Isabella Frances Romer Mary Somerville Agnes Strickland Frances Trollope
Group portraits Maria-Louisa Phipps, Samuel Rogers, Caroline,
Lady Shirling-Maxwell Florence Nightingale; Frances Parthenope,
Lady Verney Alexina Nesbit Sandford; Catherine Hepburne
Lindsay The Novello Family (Mrs Blaine Hunt; Sabilla Novello; Charles
Cowden Clarke; Mary Victoria Clarke; Florence Novello; Joseph
Alfred Novello; Clara Novello; Cecilia Serle; Vincent Novello;
Edward Holmes; Charles Stokes; Edward Petre Novello; Emma Novello;
Mary Sabilla Novello) |
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