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WARWICK, COUNTESS OF

Neg. No: (GP) 1959

Neg. Size: 15"x12"

Neg. Date: 04-05-1899

V&A Lafayette Collection

Sitter: Frances Evelyn (Daisy), Countess of Warwick, née Maynard (1861-1938).

Biog: Society beauty, socialist and philanthropist; eldest daughter and co-heiress of Col. Hon. Charles Henry Maynard, only son of 3rd and last Viscount Maynard; m. (1881) Leopold Guy Francis Maynard Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick.

Date: 4 May 1899.

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Location: The Lafayette Studio, 179 New Bond Street, London, W.

Descr: FL standing.

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Furniture & Props: Rococo studio set with hinged doors.

Photographer: Lafayette Ltd., 179 New Bond Street, London.

Evidence of photographer at work: Reflector screen partly visible on the left.

No of poses: 2.

Copyright: V&A Provenance: Pinewood Studios; acquired 1989.

References:

Biog: Burke's Peerage; Who's Who; The Times, 27 July 1938, p 16b. (See also: Earl of Warwick, Memories of Sixty Years, London, 1917; Frances, Countess of Warwick, Life's Ebb and Flow, London, 1929; Frances, Countess of Warwick, Afterthoughts, London, 1931; Theo Lang, My Darling Daisy, London, 1965; Margaret Blunden, The Countess of Warwick: A Biography, London, 1967.

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