Socialite Collection (#9)

The Meet, 1907 (oil on canvas)
7088644 The Meet, 1907 (oil on canvas) by Hardy, Heywood (1842-1933); 63.5x89.5 cm; Private Collection; English, out of copyright

Portrait of a Gentleman Seated (oil on canvas)
7074462 Portrait of a Gentleman Seated (oil on canvas) by Devis, Arthur (1712-87); 73.7x61.6 cm; Private Collection; English, out of copyright

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Study of a Girls Head and Shoulders, 1896 / 97. Creator: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Study of a Girls Head and Shoulders, 1896/97. Portrait of Olga Caracciolo, artists model, socialite, patron of the arts and writer

Mrs. Potter Palmer, 1893. Creator: Anders Leonard Zorn
Mrs. Potter Palmer, 1893. [Portrait of American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist Bertha Palmer]

Portrait of a Young Girl, 1621 (oil on panel)
6041655 Portrait of a Young Girl, 1621 (oil on panel) by Johnson, Cornelius I (1593-1661) (attr.to); 43.5x34.9 cm; Private Collection; English, out of copyright

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Portrait of a Boy (oil on canvas)
6041657 Portrait of a Boy (oil on canvas) by Opie, John (1761-1807); 127x101.5 cm; Private Collection; English, out of copyright

Le Pont d Amour (oil on canvas)
6201947 Le Pont d Amour (oil on canvas) by Brunery, Francesco (1845-1926); 83.2x100 cm; Private Collection; Italian, out of copyright

Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1845 (oil on canvas)
417293 Portrait of a Young Woman, c.1845 (oil on canvas) by Hayter, George (1792-1871); 240x148 cm; Private Collection; English, out of copyright

Arlette Dorgere, (oil on canvas)
823520 Arlette Dorgere, (oil on canvas) by Cheret, Jules (1836-1932); 238x87.7 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Arlette Dorgere. Jules Cheret (1836-1932). Oil on canvas. 238 x 87.7cm

Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond, 1894 (oil on canvas)
3518737 Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond, 1894 (oil on canvas) by Carolus-Duran, Charles Emile Auguste (1837-1917); 101x67.3 cm; Shelburne Museum, Vermont

Lillie Langtry, British-American actress and socialite (b / w photo)
6015500 Lillie Langtry, British-American actress and socialite (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lillie Langtry (1853-1929)

Maria Pavlovna Botkina, 1905 (Pencil, chalk, sanguine on paper)
2058030 Maria Pavlovna Botkina, 1905 (Pencil, chalk, sanguine on paper) by Serov, Valentin Aleksandrovich (1865-1911); (add.info.: Maria Pavlovna Botkina (born Tretyakov 1875-1952), 1905

Mrs. Potter Palmer, 1893 (oil on canvas)
2970081 Mrs. Potter Palmer, 1893 (oil on canvas) by Zorn, Anders Leonard (1860-1920); 258x141.2 cm; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA; (add.info.: Bertha Palmer (May 22, 1849 - May 5, 1918)

Sir John Lavery at his easel in Palm Springs, painting Doris Delavigne, Lady Castlerosse, who is seated on a diving board. Date: 1938

Page from The Tatler reporting on the coming out dance of Christine Sekers, daughter of Miki Sekers. The event was held at Syon Park where a nightclub was created by with moss-covered castellated

Margaret Thesiger (1911-1991) youngest daughter of Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford. Following her marriage to John Goldman (Monck), she became the photographer Margaret Monck. Date: 1924

Abbe Pierre-Joseph Alary (1689-1770) (oil on canvas)
CHT322574 Abbe Pierre-Joseph Alary (1689-1770) (oil on canvas) by French School, (18th century); Archives de l Academie Francaise, Paris

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) (oil on canvas)
CHW253940 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) (oil on canvas) by Jervas, Charles (1675-1739); Chawton House Library, Hampshire

Familiar Faces, Brilliant Brunettes by Pat Charles
A sextet of well-known society women who happen to have brunette hair. Top left, model Hilary Charles, sister of the artist Pat Charles, top right Lady Pamela Smith, daughter of Lord Birkinhead

Advertisement for Ponds skin cream featuring an endorsement by Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt, 1933 (b / w photo)
6032727 Advertisement for Ponds skin cream featuring an endorsement by Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt, 1933 (b/w photo) by American Photographer (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

MMe, Drake-Exner wearing in a dress of her own design
Madame Drake-Exner, formerly Evelyn Boyriven, Parisian socialite, pictured wearing a simple patterned day dress of her own design, with a severe felt hat and snake belt. Date: 1929

Sketch cover, Marquise de Casa Maury (Paula Gellibrand)
Front cover of The Sketch featuring Paula Gellibrand, wife of the 1st Marquis de Casa Maury (1898-1986), socialite, pictured wearing a simple

Barbara Cartland
Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland (1901-2000), married name Mrs Barbara McCorquodale, prolific British novelist, though the Tatler describes her here as, " the pretty daughter of Mrs Cartland

Lady Randolph Churchill, 1888 (b / w photo)
696645 Lady Randolph Churchill, 1888 (b/w photo) by Barraud, Herbert Rose (1845-c.1896); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lady Randolph Churchill, (1854-1921), born Jeanette Jerome

Dickie Gordon and Walter Crisham at Eden Roc
Dorothy Mary " Dickie" Fellowes-Gordon (3 August 1891 11 August 1991) Scottish socialite, coal industry heiress and singer, companion of Elsa Maxwell

Fortnum & Mason fashion ad - Mrs Philip Kindersley
Advertisement for a ready-to-wear suit in pale green wool tweed with white revers from Fortnum & Mason, modelled by society beauty, Mrs Philip Kindersley

A Sphere Projecting Against a Plane, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1792
NCO189724 A Sphere Projecting Against a Plane, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1792 (hand-coloured etching) by Gillray, James (1757-1815); Courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of New College

The Loss of the Faro Bank, or The Rooks Pigeon d
NCO191286 The Loss of the Faro Bank, or The Rooks Pigeon d, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1792 (hand-coloured etching) by Gillray

Front cover illustration of Maitresse d Esthetes by Willy (1859-1931) publ
495652 Front cover illustration of Maitresse d Esthetes by Willy (1859-1931) publ. Albin Michel (litho) (b/w photo) by Gottlob

Beauty, brains and breeding 1919
Photographs of society women in 1919, (left to right): Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm (1895 -1969), Lady Loughborough, Australian born wife of Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine

Lady Horne & Mrs O Malley-Keyes at Biarritz
Jane O Malley-Keyes (1888-1964), formerly Jane Byrnes, American socialite who married Middleton O Malley-Keyes and reigned supreme over Biarritz society

Cocktail time at Cap d Antibes, Marquise de Casa Maury
Enjoying cocktails at Cap D Antibes - the Marquise de Casa Maury, formerly Miss Paula Gellibrand, seated at a beach side cafÚáÀith a friend

Mrs Ingram (Dorothy Caruso) on the Venice Lido beach
Dorothy Caruso, widow of the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, pictured on the beach at the Venice Lido with her second husband, Captain Ernest Ingram and her children

Princess Pauline von Metternich, 1860 (oil on canvas)
1616697 Princess Pauline von Metternich, 1860 (oil on canvas) by Winterhalter, Franz Xaver (1805-73); (add.info.: Princess Pauline Clementine von Metternich - Winneburg zu Beilstein nee Countess)

Margaret Whigham and Lord Selby
Miss Margaret Whigham, later Mrs Charles Sweeny and then Duchess of Argyll, pictured with Lord Selby at Mrs. Woolley-Harts house-warming party in June 1931. Date: 1931

Susan Bligh
Susan Rachel Bligh (1916-1983), daughter of Noel Bligh (son of the 8th Earl of Darnley) out in London in 1938. She worked as a mannequin (model)

Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow (Barbara Hutton), 1938
Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, formerly Miss Barbara Hutton (1912-76) pictured at the fashionable Venice Lido in 1938 wearing a Chinese style pyjamas

Sketch - Engagement of Margaret Whigham & Earl of Warwick
Front cover of The Sketch magazine reporting on the engagement of popular debutante, Margaret Whigham ( the most talked-of, photographed, and paragraphed debutante ) to the Earl of Warwick

The Marquise de Casa Maury (Paula Gellibrand) by Yevonde
Paula Gellibrand, wife of the 1st Marquis de Casa Maury (1898-1986), socialite, photographed by Madame Yevonde. 1928

Tatler cover - Barbara Hutton
Cover of The Tatler magazine featuring Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, formerly Miss Barbara Hutton (1912-76). Hutton, the Woolworths heiress, dubbed

Teresa Jungmann
Teresa Baby Jungman, later Mrs Cuthbertson (1908-2010), daughter of Dutch painter Nico Jungman and Beatrice Mackay, later Mrs Richard Guinness

Princess Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge
Princess Jean Faucigny-Lucinge, formerly Miss Liliane (Baba) d Erlanger, only daughter of Baron and Baroness d Erlanger. She married Prince Jean Louis Faucigny-Lucinge in 1923

Eve front cover - Lady Loughborough
Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm (1895 -1969), Lady Loughborough, Australian Born wife of Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough (died 1929)

Lily Langtry, British-American actress and producer
Lily Langtry, British-American actress, socialite and producer. Date: circa 1900s

Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (b / w photo)
6015086 Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (b/w photo) by English Photographer

Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond, 1894 (oil on canvas)
3518736 Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond, 1894 (oil on canvas) by Carolus-Duran, Charles Emile Auguste (1837-1917); 101x67.3 cm; Shelburne Museum, Vermont

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