Regency Portraits Catalogue
Elizabeth (née Farren), Countess of Derby (1759?-1829), Actress and second wife of 12th Earl of Derby
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Actress; she married the 12th Earl of Derby in 1797.
'... so thin that art had to be largely employed in the composition of her figure' (Matthews & Hutton, Actors and Actresses, 1886, p 125).
'... so thin that art had to be largely employed in the composition of her figure' (Matthews & Hutton, Actors and Actresses, 1886, p 125).
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Gunnis 1953Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1661-1851, 1953 and revised edn. 1968.
Lawrence 1911
W. J. Lawrence, 'The Portraits of Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby' in Connoisseur XXIX, 1911, pp 95-101.
Noble 1908
Percy Noble, Anne Seymour Damer, 1908.
NPG Annual Report 1965-6, 1967, pp 23-4.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.