Aristocrats (62 page)

Louisa’s print room at Castletown.

The Long Gallery at Castletown with Tom Conolly’s portrait by Mengs over the fireplace.

Castletown from the air, with the ‘Conolly Folly’ on the horizon.

Emily’s ‘India paper room’ at Carton.

The shell cottage at Carton: morbid excrescences a world away from the curlicues of the Goodwood shell house.

Emily in ermine by Reynolds, early 1770s.

Louisa: ample in middle age.

Sarah’s house in Celbridge, now part of a church school for the handicapped.

‘Dear Edward’: Emily’s favourite son with a democratic cravat and hairstyle in the early 1790s, by Hugh Douglas Hamilton.

Emily at 77, by Sir Martin Archer Shee. ‘The most beautiful woman your age in the kingdom’, her adoring husband declared.

Henry Fox, painted by Reynolds in 1764, at the height of his political career.

Caroline, painted by Reynolds in 1758, when she was 35, and called herself a ‘woman of fashion’.

Caroline as she liked to think of herself in 1763 with her furs, letters and ‘visage de quarante ans’, painted by Ramsay for the Holland House gallery.

Ste Fox in the early 1760s by Reynolds: fat and adored.