Marie-Anne Waldstein

[2] Aged 18, she married the 47-year-old widowed Spanish Marquis of Santa Cruz José Joaquín de Silva-Bazán.

[3] She was rumoured to have had an affair with French Ambassador Ferdinand Guillemardet in 1798 and with his successor Lucien Bonaparte in 1800–1802.

[1][4][5] In 1802, her husband died and she went to Italy, leaving her portrait made by her hand in the gallery of Florence.

In 1805 she returned to Spain, and resided there for a very short time before moving back to Italy.

[2] There she continued to paint and copy works by the great masters, such as Caravaggio, Titian and Il Garofalo.