Portrait Sculpture at Wilton House, no 3.
I am very grateful to the 18th Earl and Countess of Pembroke for allowing me to visit Wilton House with my camera and giving me free access to the sculptures outside visiting hours.
I am also very grateful to all the staff at Wilton - Charlotte Spender, Sandie Buxcie, and in particular the House Manager Nigel Bailey and all at Wilton who made me feel most welcome.
Mary Fitzwilliam, Countess of Pembroke by Roubiliac.
Marble Bust.
8 Sept. 1707 - 13 Feb. 1769.
Mary FitzWilliam, who married firstly Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke; through this marriage in the following century, the great FitzWilliam inheritance passed into the Herbert family, who are today still substantial landowners in Dublin city.
She married secondly Major North Ludlow
Bernard, of Castle Bernard, Bandon, County Cork, who was the grandfather
through his first wife of the first Earl of Bandon.
In the Roubiliac Sale at St Martin's Lane, A plaster bust was sold on the Third Day Friday May 14th 1762 lot 17, Lady Pembroke.
There is only one copy of this catalogue extant in the Finberg Collection in the British Museum.
see -
https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/esdaile1928/0340/image,text_ocr
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The Images below from -
https://humphrysfamilytree.com/Fitzwilliam/mary.portraits.html
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From the 1769 Guide.
