Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
(1856-1937), Artist; wife of 8th Duke of Rutland(Marion Margaret) Violet Manners (née Lindsay), Duchess of Rutland
Sitter in 12 portraits
Artist associated with 71 portraits
Never formally trained in art, Violet Manners was one of the first exhibitors at the Grosvenor Gallery when it opened in 1877, and she continued to exhibit extensively throughout her life, including at the Royal Academy and the Fine Art Society. She published a selection of her Portraits of Men and Women, drawings of people in her social circle, in 1900. Manners was one of the central figures of the Souls, a group of aristocrats formed in the 1870s-90s, who came together because of their shared intellectual interests and avant-garde artistic taste.
Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
by Henry Jamyn Brooks
oil on canvas, 1889
NPG 1833
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Richard Bentley & Son
carbon print, published 1888
NPG Ax5427
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland when Lady Granby
by Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea
platinum print, 1890s
NPG Ax15679
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
by Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn
photolithograph, 1892
NPG x22147
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
by Michele Schemboche
albumen cabinet card, circa 1892
NPG x144187
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland as Mary Isabella, Duchess of Rutland after Cosway
by John Thomson, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897; published 1899
NPG Ax41217
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
by George Charles Beresford
dry-plate glass negative, 1902
NPG x6509
Ethel Matthews; Kate ('Kitty') Savile Clarke; Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
by and after Alexander Bassano
bromide print, circa 1902
NPG Ax136812
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
after Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
lithograph, 1891
NPG D23362
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
by William Rothenstein
lithograph, 1897
NPG D20879
Key to Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
after Henry Jamyn Brooks
photograph, 1919 or after
NPG D42236
Related People
- Victoria Marjorie Harriet Paget (née Manners), Marchioness of Anglesey (daughter)
- Lady Diana Cooper (Diana (née Manners), Viscountess Norwich) (daughter)
- Henry John Brinsley Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland (husband)
- John Henry Montagu Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland (son)
- Lady Isabel Violet Kathleen Throckmorton (née Manners) (granddaughter)
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