Elizabeth Stuart-Wortley, Baroness Wharncliffe

Caroline Elizabeth Mary Stuart-Wortley, Baroness Wharncliffe (née Crichton; 1779–1856), styled Lady Caroline Crichton from 1789 until her marriage, was an Irish-born British aristocrat and female artist known for her landscape and figurative drawing and painting.

She married James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe and had four children; There are four portraits of her as a child in the National Trust Collection.

Lady Wharncliffe was the daughter of John Creighton, 1st Earl Erne and the granddaughter of Lord Stuart of Wortley, the first Conservative to be elected as a Member of Parliament for Sheffield.

They had four children:[3] 55 works, including one landscape painting and a series of sketches of models, by Lady Wharncliffe can be found, in the Tate Collection and Archive.

[1] The book 'The first Lady Wharncliffe and her family (1779-1856); v.1 / by her grandchildren Caroline Grosvenor and the late Charles Beilby, Lord Stuart of Wortley.