Anne Caulfeild, Countess of Charlemont

[citation needed] She was a daughter of William Bermingham, Esq., of Ross Hill, Galway and his wife Mary (née Ruttledge).

[citation needed] Her sister, Mary (d. 1840), married Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim (1768–1854) in 1800.

[1] Lady Charlemont supported Effie Gray in the annulment of her marriage to John Ruskin in 1854.

[citation needed] A bust of her as a young woman by Joseph Nollekens was displayed in the corridor of Windsor Castle.

Bowles's Strictures on Pope' (February 7, 1821): “But always excepting the Venus de Medicis, I differ from that opinion, at least as far as regards female beauty; for the head of Lady Charlemont (when I first saw her nine years ago) seemed to possess all that sculpture required for its ideal.”[2] A portrait of Anne as the Roman goddess Psyche, with butterfly wings and a blue silk ribbon in her hair, was painted by François-Xavier Fabre (1766–1837) in 1796, with a copy made by Louise, wife of Charles Edward Stuart.

Portrait of Lady Charlemont as Psyche, by François-Xavier Fabre, 1796, Musée Fabre