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31 ALFRED EDWARD CHALON, R.A. Geneva 1780–1860 London
Lady Clementina Augusta Wellington Villiers (1824–1858) was one of the seven children of the 5th Earl of Jersey and the goddaughter of the Duke of Wellington. Her mother Lady Jersey was one of the Grandes Dames of London Society at the time and Clementina was a famous beauty. Many men asked for her hand in marriage, the most persistent being the Duke of Osasuna. She was taken ill with a fever however while in Germany in 1858 and returned to the family home at Middleton Park, Oxfordshire where she died.
Portrait of Lady Clementina Villiers aged eight Full-length in a garden, holding a hat Signed in gold lower right: A.E. Chalon R.A. 1832. Watercolour heightened with stopping out 404 x 267 mm., 15 3/ 4 x 10 1/ 2 in. Engraved: By H.T. Ryall for Heath’s Gallery, 1834 36