One page, 12mo, fold marks, good condition. "Dear Baroness | I will send the picture as you dsire & shall be ready to finish Miss de Rothschild when convenient to her to sit".Note: a. "A particularly significant portrait was of the 23 year old Hannah de Rothschild painted in 1874, four years before her marriage to Lord Rosebery. The small portrait (it was only 10�12) gave Lord Rosebery such pleasure that, after Hannah s early death in 1890, he told Watts that he carried it wherever he moved as he could not bear to be parted from it; b. Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery (n�e de Rothschild; 27 July 1851 19 November 1890) was the daughter of Baron Mayer de Rothschild and his wife Juliana (n�e Cohen)."; c. During the final quarter of the 19th century, her husband, the Earl of Rosebery, was one of the most celebrated figures in Britain, an influential millionaire and politician, whose charm, wit, charisma and public popularity gave him such standing that he "almost eclipsed that of Royalty". The Countess remains an enigmatic figure, and is often regarded as notable only for financing her husband's three ambitions: to marry an heiress, win The Derby, and become Prime Minister (the second and third of these possibly apocryphal ambitions were achieved after her death). In truth, she was her husband's driving force and motivation." [Wikipedia].

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Title: [G.F. Watts, painter and sculptor; Rothschild] Autograph Note Signed "G.F. Watts" to "Dear Baroness [Juliana, wife of Baron Mayer de Rothschild]" co9ncerning his portrait of "Miss [Hannah] de Rothschild" later married to the Earl of Rosebery
Publisher: Little Holland House 5 Feb
Publication Date: 1873

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