Elisabeth Ilive / Iliffe Wyndham

Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845), Elizabeth Iliffe, Countess of Egremont (1769-1822) 1797 (Petworth House and Park, West Sussex): da http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/486814

GEDCOM Note

<p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/486814">http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/486814</a></p> <p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">In about 1784 the fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Iliffe became the principal mistress of George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) and the unofficial chatelaine of Petworth.She was the daughter of a Westminster schoolmaster, and bore Egremont seven children before their marriage in 1801. As a result, the Egremont title passed to a nephew.</p> <p>Mrs Wyndham, as she was known before her marriage, ‘took great delight in painting’, both as an artist and as a painter. The diarist Joseph Farington noted in 1798 that she planned to see the great Orléanscollection of pictures then on exhibition in London following its purchase by a syndicate of English noblemen. She commissioned two paintings by William Blake (both in the North Gallery), and was also an amateur scientist, who set up a private laboratory at Petworth.</p>