Lady Wharncliffe (née Caroline Mary Elizabeth Creighton)

Caroline Creighton with her mother, Mary, Countess of Erne.

Lady Wharncliffe née Caroline Mary Elizabeth Creighton (Crichton) (1779–1856) was a British female artist known for her landscape and figurative drawing and painting. A number of these artworks are in Tate Collection and Archive. She was married to James Stuart- Wortley, the 1st Baron Wharncliffe and there are four portraits of her as a child in the National Trust Collection.

Caroline Creighton with her grandfather, Frederick Hervey, in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese in Rome.

Personal life

Lady Wharncliffe was the daughter of John Creighton, 1st Earl Erne and the granddaughter of Lord Stuart of Wortley, the first Conservative to be elected as a Member of Parliament for Sheffield.[1] She married Lord Wharncliffe on 30 March 1799. They had four children:[2]

Works

55 works, including one landscape painting and a series of sketches of models, by Lady Wharncliffe can be found in the Tate Collection and Archive.,[3]

Bibliography

The book 'The first Lady Wharncliffe and her family (1779-1856) ; v.1 / by her grandchildren Caroline Grosvenor and the late Charles Beilby, Lord Stuart of Wortley. 1927' is in the Royal Collection Trust.

Further reading

Lady Wharncliffe's letters are kept by the National Archives.[4]

References/Notes and references

  1. ↑ leighrayment.com House of Commons: Shankill to Southampton
  2. ↑ "Theroff's Online Gotha, Bute". Archived from the original on 10 September 2006. Retrieved 1 December 2006.
  3. ↑ http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lady-wharncliffe-nee-lady-caroline-mary-elizabeth-creighton-2576
  4. ↑ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6901983
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