Aristocrats (63 page)

Reynold’s famous triple portrait of Fox with Susan Fox-Strangways and Sarah leaning from a Holland House window, 1762–64.

Charles James Fox, aged 3, by Hoare, resplendent in silk dress and bandana.

Fox in the 1780s, the ‘champion of the people’, dubbed by Gibbon ‘the black collier’.

Fox in private, by Lawrence, called by Burke before they quarrelled ‘a man made to be loved’.

The ceiling of the Carton saloon; plaster excess by the Lafranchini brothers, 1739.

Emily taking the sort of ‘jumbling ride’ she prescribed for pregnant women in the Carton grounds.

Susan O’Brien after her marriage to William O’Brien and return from exile in New York, pastel by Cotes about 1770.

William O’Brien, matinée idol and protégé of Garrick.

Cecilia Lennox, painted by Ramsay in 1768, a year before she died of consumption.

The Duke of Leinster (centre) perhaps with William, his heir, seated on a rock, by Healy, for Castletown, 1768.

La Belle Cuisinière
after Boucher, typical of the moralising domestic scenes in Louisa’s print room.

William Kent’s card for Fourdrinier, who produced paper for the Foxes’ circle, and a print of Holland House in 1751.

Horner’s trade card. Emily sent Louisa to his shop in 1759 to look for India Paper for Carton.