Lady Georgiana Fane

She was the daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland and his second wife the former Jane Huck-Saunders.

[3] Her mother bore four other children before separating from her father, after ten years of marriage.

Lady Georgiana is known for two things, a much commented upon portrait of her, when she was five or six years old, dressed as a peasant girl, and for her apparent stalking of the Duke of Wellington.

[3][4] She met Wellington in 1815, shortly after his final victory over Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo; she was 14 years old, and he was 47.

[3] Lord Palmerston, who was carrying on an affair with her married half-sister, Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey, proposed to Lady Georgiana, twice, in 1823, but she turned him down.

This portrait, by Thomas Lawrence , of Lady Georgiana Fane, as a peasant girl, is described as a good example of a trend in painting to represent the rich in fantastic scenes, as individuals from mythology, classical literature, or simple peasants.