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. Occasion: - Location: The Lafayette Studio, 179 New Bond Street, London, W. Descr: HL seated. Costume: Fichu caught in front with a bunch of roses and hat, in the manner of Romney. Furniture & Props: Painted backdrop.
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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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