Unknown woman, formerly known as Elizabeth Christiana Cavendish (née Hervey), Duchess of Devonshire Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Unknown woman, formerly known as Elizabeth Christiana Cavendish (née Hervey), Duchess of Devonshire NPG 2355
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by John Westbrooke Chandler
This picture was bequeathed to the National Portrait Gallery as a portrait of Lady Elizabeth Forster, later Duchess of Devonshire, but this is incorrect. Although the sitter is not known, the painting is signed by the painter John Westbrook Chandler. Chandler was the illegitimate son of Frances Greville, Earl of Warwick, He led a career as a landscape and portrait painter, and also wrote poetry. Few of his works survive and little is known of his life; he was described as a freethinker and melancholic,... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










