Eleanor Vere Boyle (née Gordon)

Louisa Anne Beresford (née Stuart), Marchioness of Waterford (1818-1891)

3 3/8 in. x 5 7/8 in. (87 mm x 150 mm)

Watercolour and pencil

21 July 1888

© National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D23146[50])

Given by Anne Horatia (née Richmond), Lady Piper, 1994

Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London

Louisa and Eleanor were good friends. Both were in the highest social rank, and were talented artists who had been noticed by Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites. [Commentary continues below.]

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