Elizabeth and Valerian Wellesley - Rex Whistler
Elizabeth (1918 - 2013), later Lady Elizabeth Clyde), and Valerian Wellesley (1915 - 2014), later 8th Duke of Wellington at Penns in the Rock by Rex Whistler. Penns in the Rocks is an early 18th Century redbrick house, built for the family of William Penn of Pennsylvania. The house is set opposite a natural outcrop of monumental sandstone rocks, and in the 20th Century was home to Dorothy Wellesley (mother of the children), the Bloomsbury poet and friend of WB Yeats. She erected the temple which faces the front of the house, and which is dedicated to
Picture No
14170520
Media ID
48990199
Size
5522px x 4122px
(68MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd. / Mary Evans
Source
Painting by Rex Whistler, reproduced in The Tatler', 22 January 1936, p.164-5
Date
1936
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