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Description: | RU, unmounted s. on plate b. r. "Chas. Spooner fecit."; inscr. on plate b. l. "J. Reynolds Pinxt' ; Inscr pon plate b.c. " Miss Nelly O' Brien / London Printed for Robt. Sayer near Serjeants Inn Fleet & Hen.y Parker opposite Birchen Lane Cornhill." Ja.s Wilson fecit." CRE SPOONER; Charles; (English; d.1767) AFTER REYNOLDS, Joshua, Sir; (English; 1723-1792) PUB SAYER, Robert Nelly O'Brien was a courtesan famous for her beauty. She was accepted as part of high society in Georgian Britain, and was the mistress of the 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke, to whose son she gave birth in 1764. She died in 1768. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : REPRODUCTIVE : WOMAN : IRISH : COURTESAN : CELEBRITY : RELIEF SCULPTURE : SYMBOLISM : CHASTITY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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