Lady Eileen Orde
Lady Eileen Orde, nee Wellesley (1887-1952), daughter of the 4th Duke of Wellington and wife of Captain Cuthbert Julian Orde, WW1 pilot, RAC secretary and artist best known for his portraits of Battle of Britain pilots. Eileen herself was a talented artist working on advertisements, wallpaper designs and fabric painting. She appeared in the first photograph to be published in British Vogue and had an affair with Rupert Brooke. Pictured in The Sketch in January 1918 which reports on the birth of her and Cuthbert's first child, a daugher Julian (Doonie)
Picture No
11802667
Media ID
46074405
Size
3706px x 5377px
(5.4MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Hugh Cecil in The Sketch, 16 January 1918
Date
1918
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