Courtesans

Mabel Grey

active 1870s
Courtesan
Sitter in 1 portrait

Countess Teresa Guiccioli

1801-1873
Byron's mistress
Sitter in 4 portraits

Nell Gwyn

1651?-1687
Actress; mistress of Charles II
Sitter associated with 31 portraits

Emma Hamilton

Baptised 1765-1815
Mistress of Lord Nelson
Sitter associated with 37 portraits

Charlotte Holden (née Spencer)

died 1789
Courtesan
Sitter in 2 portraits

Margaret Hughes

died 1719
Actress and mistress of Prince Rupert
Sitter in 3 portraits

Frances Villiers (née Twysden), Countess of Jersey

1753-1821
Mistress of George IV and courtier
Sitter associated with 8 portraits

Polly Kennedy (Polly Jones)

died 1781
Courtesan and mistress of Sir Charles Bunbury
Sitter associated with 14 portraits

Marion Lee

active 1870s
Courtesan
Sitter in 1 portrait

Anne ('Ninon') de l'Enclos

1620-1705
French courtesan
Sitter in 2 portraits

Gertrude Mahon (née Tilson)

1752-in or after 1808
Courtesan and actress
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Nancy Parsons

circa 1735-1814 or 1815
Courtesan and political mistress
Sitter in 6 portraits

Harriet Montague

active circa 1770s
Courtesan
Sitter in 1 portrait

Frances ('Fanny') Murray (née Rudman)

1729-1778
Courtesan
Sitter in 2 portraits

Nelly O'Brien

died 1768
Courtesan, beauty and model for Reynolds
Sitter in 11 portraits

Caroline Otero (Agustina del Carmen Otero Iglesias)

1868-1965
'La Belle Otero'; Spanish actress, dancer and courtesan
Sitter in 3 portraits

Cora Pearl (Emma Elizabeth Crouch)

1835?-1886
Courtesan; daughter of Frederick William Nicholls Crouch
Sitter in 2 portraits

Teresia Constantia Phillips

1709-1765
Courtesan and memoirist
Sitter in 11 portraits

Miss Plunkett

Courtesan
Sitter in 3 portraits

Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth

1649-1734
Mistress of Charles II
Sitter in 15 portraits