Portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Phillips, from 1813.Douglass p.viiPriestley p.6Simon p.28 It depicts the Anglo-Irish aristocrat and author Lady Caroline Lamb, the wife of the future Prime Minister Lord Melbourne and lover of the poet Lord Byron. Unusually she is dressed as a page boy carrying a platter of fruit.Eckert p.78 Phillips also painted Lamb's estranged lover, Lord Byron, twice, including his Lord Byron in Albanian Dress.Shears & Rawes p.497 Today the painting of Lady Caroline is in the collection of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.
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