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Caroline Blanche Elizabeth (née FitzRoy), Lady Lindsay

(1844-1912), Writer and patron of the arts; wife of Sir Coutts Lindsay, 2nd Bt; daughter of Hon. Henry FitzRoy

Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry

Sitter in 4 portraits
Painter, writer and musician; married Sir Coutts Lindsay, 1864. Together they founded the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 with most of the funding coming from her. The Grosvenor became the leading independent art gallery and a focus for the Aesthetic Movement in the early 1880s.

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Caroline Blanche Elizabeth (née FitzRoy), Lady Lindsay

by Joseph Middleton Jopling
watercolour with bodycolour, 1874
NPG 5401

Caroline Blanche Elizabeth (née FitzRoy), Lady Lindsay; Sir Coutts Lindsay, 2nd Bt

by Thomas Buist
albumen carte-de-visite, September 1864
NPG x8474

Caroline Blanche Elizabeth (née FitzRoy), Lady Lindsay

by Walery, published by Sampson Low & Co
carbon print, published September 1888
NPG x9146

Caroline Blanche Elizabeth (née FitzRoy), Lady Lindsay

by Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea
platinum print, 1890s
NPG Ax15711

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Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (uncle)
Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild (uncle)
Sir Coutts Lindsay, 2nd Bt (husband)
Nathan Meyer Rothschild (grandfather)

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Annie Orton

31 May 2019, 15:19

Blanche Lindsay is mentioned at length and her personal writings quoted at length in a book I am reading called Green Leaves by Mrs Robert Henrey who was married to Blanche’s grandson

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