Marion Margaret Violet (née Lindsay) Manners, Duchess of Rutland (1856-1937) was a famous Victorian beauty who was also an able amateur artist. A biographical sketch is here.

Given her social position and the fact that she was in her prime during a golden age of British portraiture, I find it surprising that Violet was little depicted. And those major portraits of her, as best I could locate via Google, were by only two artists, George Frederic Watts and James Jebusa Shannon.

Gallery

[Image]Photo of Violet Lindsay Manners

[Image]Self-Portrait

[Image]By George Frederic Watts - 1879

[Image]By George Frederic Watts - 1881

[Image]By James Jebusa Shannon - c. 1890

[Image]By James Jebusa Shannon - c. 1900
Other images on the Web have a blue cast to this image. I don't know which color scheme is correct, but am posting this one because it is larger.

[Image]By James Jebusa Shannon - 1918
Similar to the previous portrait, but Violet was now about 62 years old.