![]() ![]() ![]() Georgiana remained with the Cholmondeleys, while in 1786 Grace settled more or less permanently in France, becoming the sometime companion of the duc d’Orléans, Philippe Égalité. In 1782 Grace gave birth to a child, Georgiana (The Met 15.30.38), who is thought to have been fathered either by the Earl of Cholmondeley or, as her mother claimed, by the Prince of Wales. In 1774, her husband applied for a divorce, presenting evidence of her elopement with a young, married Irish peer the divorce was granted two years later. Reportedly she was seventeen when she married the thirty-five-year-old Dr. She may have attended a convent school in France or Flanders and then joined her father, the Scottish advocate Hew Dalrymple, in London. Her parents had separated during her infancy, and her mother died while she was still a child. Elliott and was the divorced wife of the Scottish physician Dr. The sitter, born Grace Dalrymple, styled herself Mrs. ![]()
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